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Once I’m done with a book, I’m done! I’m just not a sequel kind of girl. By the time I’ve finished a book I’ve read it so many times that it’s time to move on.

Sarah Dessen

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
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Evanston
Illinois
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Done
Sequels
Many
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I don't lie. You don't lie, I repeated. That's what I said. Ever. Nope. Sure you don't, I thought.
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This Lullaby is only a few words, a simple run of chords, quiet here in this spare room, but you can hear it, hear it, wherever you may go, even if I let you down, this lullaby plays on.
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It hadn't even occured to me that somebody would believe mine.
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Life isn't fair, Owen told her. Get used to it.
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No, no, no to Tallyho.
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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. The first boy is always the hardest to get over, Haven. It's just the way the world works.
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It all depends on how you choose to live it. It's like forever, always changing.
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All I'd wanted for so long was for someone to explain everything that had happened to me in this same way. To label it neatly on a page: this leads to this leads to this.
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That was the thing. You just never knew. Forever was so many different things. It was always changing, it was what everything was really all about.
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