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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
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Evanston
Illinois
Tame
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Like I, of all people, didn't know better than to lead a total stranger to the point where they could hurt me most, knowing how easily they'd be able to find their way back to it.
Sarah Dessen
The truth about forever is that it is happening right now.
Sarah Dessen
This thought was interrupted, suddenly, by a crash from the front entrance. We all looked over just in time to see Adam bending back from the glass, rubbing his arm. Pull open, Maggie called out. As Leah rolled her eyes, she said, He never remembers. It's so weird.
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Their words, like the music, had the potential to be endless.
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How weird that must be, to stay the same as everyone else changes.
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I'd been through so much, falling short again and again, and only recently had found a place where who I was, right now, was enough.
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But I think, personally, that it would be worse to have been alone all that time. Sure, maybe I would have protected my heart from some things, but would that really have been better? To hold myself apart because I was too scared that something might no be forever?
Sarah Dessen
I just do the best I can under the circumstances.
Sarah Dessen
That was the thing about being on the inside: the world was just going on, even when it seemed like time for you had stopped for good.
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See for me, it’s immediate. Silence is so freaking loud.' This seemed either deep or deeply oxymoronic. I wasn’t sure which.
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It hadn't even occured to me that somebody would believe mine.
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I don't know. Just because someone's pretty doesn't mean she's decent. Or vice versa. I'm not into appearances. I like flaws, I think they make things interesting.
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I wanted to be somewhere else ... Someplace where the sight of me sobbing would tie me to no one and no one to me.
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You get what you give, but also what you're willing to take. The night before, I'd offered up my hand. Now, if I held on, there was no telling what it was possible to recieve in return.
Sarah Dessen
People get mad Annabel. Its not the end of the world.
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So I left him there alone to watch history repeat the same events retold again and again on his own.
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I think as a writer one of the benefits is that you can put things that you're interested in into your books. I always have put a lot of food and restaurants because I was a waitress and I love to eat.
Sarah Dessen
But as was so often the case, it was the one person missing who you thought about more than the ones who were right in front of you.
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Apologies come in all shapes and sizes. You can give diamonds, candy, flowers, or just your deepest heartfelt sentiment.
Sarah Dessen
Together, we looked down at the tiny house, the sole thing on this vast, flat surface. Like the only person living on the moon. It could be either lonely or peaceful, depending on how you looked at it. It's a start, I said.
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