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I'd been convinced I was on the outside, but really, I'd always been within arm's reach. All I had to do was ask, and I, too, would be easily brought back, surrounded and immersed, finding myself safe, somewhere in between. (Sarah Dessen)
If you're not getting hurt, you're not riding hard enough. View quote
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The basic fact is that no, this isnt ideal. Very few things are. Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push, so to speak. -Heidi. View quote
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I understood now. This voice, the one that had been trying to get my attention all this time, calling out to me, begging me to hear it -- it wan't Will's. It was mine. View quote
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instead, we just sat there, together but really apart, watching a show about a stranger and all her secrets, while keeping our own to ourselves, as always. View quote
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You want to take me to a movie?" I asked. "Well, not really," he said. "What I really want is for you to be my girlfriend. But I thought saying that might scare you off. View quote
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That's not a real answer.' Says who?' Says me. I mean real fear, like of failure, of death, of regret. Like that. Something that keeps you awake nights, questioning your very existence.' Clowns. View quote
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If you could just be nice, then you wouldn't have to worry about arguments at all. but being nice wasn't as easy as it seemed, especially when the rest of the world could be so mean. View quote
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You know, feeling and action are always linked, one can't exist without the other. It's sort of a hippie thing.-Wes. View quote
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I've given lots of people chances, she said suddenly, as if Marion was still in the room to hear us. But there's only so much faith you can have in people. View quote
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I knew this feeling, the 2 a. m. loneliness that I'd practically invented. (Sarah Dessen)
But all I could think of was how when nothing made sense and hadn't for ages, you just have to grab onto anything you feel sure of. View quote
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If what you're asking is how I debated whether or not to love her the answer is I didn't. Not at all. It just happened. I didn't ever question it; by the time I realized what was happening, it was already done. View quote
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The truth was, I wasn't sure. But I wanted to keep believing people could change, and it was certainly easier to do so when you were in the midst of it. View quote
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So he didn't have to prove how he felt about me. Like so much else, I should just know. View quote
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Grieving doesn't make you imperfect. It makes you human. View quote
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I mean, at first, it was kind of disappointing. But people recover from disappointment. Otherwise we'd all be hanging from nooses. Right? View quote
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Whenever you made a choice, especially one you'd been resisting, it always affected everything else, some in big ways, like a tremor beneath your feet, others in so tiny a shift you hardly noticed a change at all. But it was happening. View quote
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Self respect, Colie. If you don't have it, the world will walk all over you. View quote
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Yeah. I mean, acknowledging is easy. Something happened or it didn't. But understanding... that's where things get sticky. View quote
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With my mom, when someone was gone, they were gone. She didn't waste another minute thinking about them, and neither should you. (Sarah Dessen)
Why does she have wings?' So she can fly. View quote
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See, Colie, it's all about understanding. We're all worth something. View quote
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We both know the limits of this relationship. It's understood. And as long as we're both comfortablewith that, nobody get's hurt. It's basic.' ~Oliva, pg 374. View quote
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It doesn't matter, anyway, why you like me. Just that you do. View quote
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