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But you only get so many do-overs in this life, so many chances to, if not change your past, alter your future. (Sarah Dessen)
All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control. To be real. View quote
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Fine... a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth. View quote
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A lot can change between planning something and actually doing it. But maybe all that really matters is that anything is different at all. View quote
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We can all be beautiful girls. View quote
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This was always the problem with my mother and me, I suddenly realized. There were so many things we thought we agreed on, but anythign can have two meanings. Like sides of a coin, it just matters how it falls. View quote
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In those first few hours officially single again the world seems like it expands, suddenly bigger and more vast now that you have to get through it alone. View quote
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I wondered if emotions were like menstrual cycles, if you get enough women together. Give it time, and everyone was crying. View quote
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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. View quote
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I just do the best I can under the circumstances. View quote
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But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, and that was this: it was happening. (Sarah Dessen)
And that was it; it was so easy for her. My own memories did not even belong to me. But I knew she was wrong. I had seen that comet. I knew it as well as I knew my own face, my own hands. My own heart. View quote
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This is what daughters did. They left, and came home later with lives of their own. View quote
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This was just one night, one chance to vary and see where it took me. The fireflies were probably already out: maybe it wasn't just a season or a time but a whole world I'd forgotten. I'd never know until I stepped out into it. So I did. View quote
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But it was too early to know: there were always more pages to go, more words to be written, before the story was over. View quote
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Sometimes, you get things right the first time. Others, the second. But the third time, they say, is the charm. View quote
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Really, it had been stupid to expect anything anyway. A few late nights does not a habit, or a relationship, make. View quote
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Let's just start and see what happens. View quote
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There was nothing, nothing to depend on. And why was I surprised? View quote
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...You don't want the best of times to be just one thing, forever. You have to have a lot of bests of times, each one topping the last. You know? View quote
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But the bottom line is that, as humans, we are by nature selfish creatures. The only way we care about anything, really, is by making it about us. (Sarah Dessen)
And while it is hard enough to take away something that makes a person happy it's even more difficult when it seems like it's the only thing. View quote
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But for now, I just sat there on the bed and listened to my song. The one that had been written for me by a man who knew me not at all, now sung by the one who knew me best. View quote
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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. View quote
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Because it is so hard, in any life, to believe in what you can't fully understand. View quote
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