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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
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Evanston
Illinois
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You can't act like you care about someone but not let them care about you.
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It’s never something huge that changes the everything, but instead the tiniest of details, irrevocably tweaking the balance of the universe while you’re busy focusing on the big picture.
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You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it ends.
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None of it meant anything, and all of it was important.
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I love YA, and it's been a really good fit for me. But at some point, I would like to try something else: a collection of short stories, or writing about something other than high school. A lot has happened to me since I was eighteen.
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its been a long night aren't they all?
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You just walk over there and into the office and say, 'Hey, be my prom date,' he said. It's that simple.
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I was actually kind of a hot mess in high school. I did a lot of things in high school I'm not proud of. I wasn't a good student and I wasn't particularly a good daughter. I wasn't very engaged.
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And don't change for a guy, ever, Leah added. If they're worthy, they'll like you just the way you are.
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If he'd been any other boy, and this was any other world, I would have kissed him. Nothing could have stopped me.
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Pretend to be a delinquent? I asked clarifying. You can do it, Dave advised me. Just don't smile, and try to look like you're considering stealing something.
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You’re always a kid around your parents… Unless they’re acting like children. Then you don’t get the chance.
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When you don't know where you're going, maybe it wasn't such a bad thing to have more than you need.
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Maybe we were all destined to just keep doing the same stupid things, over and over again, never really learning a single thing.
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Sometimes things don't turn out the way you want them to, Haven. Sometimes the people you choose to believe are wrong.
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Says the girl with no thyme.
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I took his wildness from him and tried to fold it into myself, filling up the empty spaces all those second place finishes left behind.
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During this time we've been apart, it's you I've thought of when I'm at my weakest, and you who have pulled me through.
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It was like discovering that some part of you wasn't yours at all. And it made me wonder what else I couldn't claim.
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I wanted to tell him so. Find the right words, string them together in the ideal way, knowing that here they would have the best chance of sounding perfect.
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