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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
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Evanston
Illinois
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Tame
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What were you two talking about? she whispered as Wes pulls the door shut. Nothing, I said. Running. You should have seen your face, she said, her breath hot in my ear. Sa-woooon.
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'I don't get it,' Caroline said, bemused. 'She's the only one with wings. Why is that?'
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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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Your mother won a special reward, she told me, because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all applauded.
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It takes so little to change everything. If you really thought about it, it would scare you to death.
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If you were dead, Owen told her, you'd have bigger problems than what you were wearing.
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Okay. Enough. I got out of the closet, brushing myself off, then turned around to face her. This is happening. So you need to go downstairs, face your fears, and make the best of it, and everything will be okay. She narrowed her eyes at me. When did you suddenly become so positive? Just get out of there.
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I'd been running for years: there was nothing scarier, to me, than to just be still with someone. And yet, there on that dark road, going home, I was.
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It didn't make you noble to step away from something that wasn't working, even if you thought you were the reason for the malfunction. Especially then. It just made you a quitter. Because if you were the problem, chances were you could also be the solution. The only way to find out was to take another shot.
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He'd always had that fearless optimism that made cynics like me squirm. I wondered if it was enough for both of us. I would never know from here, though. And time was passing. Crucial minutes and seconds, each one capable of changing everything.
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So while it seemed like you were seeing everything, you really weren't. Just bits and pieces that looked like a whole.
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If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.
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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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I was so scared about being discovered, but nobody came. Nobody heard. In my own ears, though, my sobs sounded primal and scary, like something I would have turned off if I'd been able to.
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I would miss Colby, but it wasn't going anywhere. All the more reason why I should.
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Just because something's damaged doesn't mean it shouldn't be treated with respect.' 'Ad,' Wallace said, 'it's a coffee table, not an orphan.
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There are some things in this world you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifting from where you've carefully placed them, it shakes your faith, right where you stand.
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We were willing to do so much for the people we loved, even if it meant hurting ourselves. Maybe that, in the end, was what love- all kinds- was really about.
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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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That was the hard thing about grief, and the grieving. They spoke another language, and the words we knew always fell short of what we wanted them to say.
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