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This is personal, she'd said. Real. This moment was too, even if you couldn't see it at first glance. It was fake on the outside, but so true within. You only had to look, really look to tell. (Sarah Dessen)
I have to admit, an unrequited love is so much better than a real one. I mean, it's perfect... As long as something is never even started, you never have to worry about it ending. It has endless potential. View quote
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You can't always get the perfect moment. Sometimes, you just have to do the best you can under the circumstances. View quote
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I meant what I said to you. I wasn't playing some kind of summer game. Everything I said was true, from the first day. EVERY GODDAMN WORD. View quote
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Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking. View quote
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It was so risky and so scary, and yet at the same time, so beautiful. Maybe the truth was, it shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. View quote
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You really get to meet people on such a personal level. There's a real bonding in someone beating the crap out of you. View quote
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When faced with the scariest of things, all you want to do is turn away, hide in your own invisible place. But you can't. That's why it's not only important for us to be seen, but to have someone to look for us, as well. View quote
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Everyone has their weak spot. The one thing that despite your best efforts, will always bring you to your knees, regardless of how strong you are otherwise. For some people, it's love. Others, money or alcohol. Mine was even worse: calculus. View quote
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There's a difference between the wordsand. And it's more than three words. View quote
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what you have to decide, is how you want your life to be. if your forever was ending tomorrow, would this b the way you'd want to have spent it? (Sarah Dessen)
I'd wanted a real kiss, something to remember, but i'd long ago learned not to be picky with farewells. They weren't guaranteed or promised. You were lucky, more than blessed, if you got a goodbye at all. View quote
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But now, I was beginning to wonder if you didn't always have to choose between turning away for good or rushing in deeper. In the moments that it really counts, maybe it's enough- more than enough, even- just to be there. ~Ruby, pg 399. View quote
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Life isn't only about the big moments whether they be good or bad. Maybe it's about the small things that stretch out to strengthen the most tenuous bound. View quote
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Stuff that would be weird in the bright light of day just wasn't so much once you passed a certain hour. View quote
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Just wait a second. We can't leave it like this." But this too, wasn't true. Leaving was easy. It was everything else that was so damned hard. View quote
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I think my mother characters have changed a lot since Sasha was born, just because I understand what a hard job it is now, and I'm coming at it from another angle - like you just love and care about this person so much, and just want to protect them from everything. View quote
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I love writing about the summer between high school and college. It's the last gasp of really being a teen. View quote
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I'm famously secretive about my work. Nobody reads my books till they're finished. View quote
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Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong. View quote
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I knew that in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late again. I might have missed my chance. But I would at least know I tried, that I took my heart and extended my hand, whatever the outcome. (Sarah Dessen)
Story of my life. View quote
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You only really fall apart in front of the people you know can piece you back together. View quote
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The future was one thing that could never be broken, because it had not yet had the chance to be anything. View quote
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You know, when it works, love is amazing. It's not overrated. View quote
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