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a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in you or the world, that one song stays the same, just like that moment. Which is pretty amazing, when you actually think about it. (Sarah Dessen)
When you have lost hope, you lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope. View quote
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Nothing had been okay, not for a long time. And every moment that I thought I was getting close, like the one I'd had earlier, seemed to remind the universe that I didn't deserve that, not yet. View quote
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If you don't pay attention to the past, you'll never understand the future. It's all linked together. View quote
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He had a nice smile. Seeing it, I felt like I'd won a prize, because he was so sparing with them. View quote
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For any of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred of years from now. You can never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count. View quote
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Time wasn't a thing you could divide easily; there was no defined middle or beginning or end. I could pretend to leave the past behind, but it would not leave me. View quote
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Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push, so to speak. View quote
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Just because something's damaged doesn't mean it shouldn't be treated with respect. View quote
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I would have loved to know how it felt, just once, to have something fall apart and see options instead of endings. View quote
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What defines you isn't how many times you crash, but the number of times you get back. (Sarah Dessen)
In every friendship, at some point comes a test. Never before in my experience, however, had it involved food. View quote
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Fine," he repeated, and I wondered why it was I kept coming back to this, again and again, 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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It was so easy to disown what you couldn't recognize, to keep yourself apart from things that were foreign and unsettling. View quote
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Relationships evolve, just like people do. Just because you know someone doesn't mean you know everything about them. View quote
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What you do in your dreams is never your choice. But it made me happy anyway. View quote
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I'm always hopeful. I feel like I'm at the prom sitting against the wall waiting for someone to ask me to dance. View quote
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I really just love to read, period, whether it be books or magazines or the back of the cereal box. It's the one thing I can always count on to calm me down, take me away and inspire me, all at once. View quote
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I was born in 1970 in Illinois, but all the life I remember I've spent in Chapel Hill, N.C. View quote
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I was so thrilled that I was having a girl, because I just am so girly myself, but I think the teenage years are going to be very interesting. View quote
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I love YA, and it's been a really good fit for me. But at some point, I would like to try something else: a collection of short stories, or writing about something other than high school. A lot has happened to me since I was eighteen. (Sarah Dessen)
My books are so tame! View quote
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I write thank-you notes the minute I throw the wrapping paper away. View quote
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I think part of the problem sometimes is that there's so much happening in my books, to whittle it down into a single script is hard. View quote
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Each time, I think I'm never going to write another book. It never gets easier. View quote
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