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I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed. (Sarah Dessen)
Wherever you will go, I will let you down, But this lullaby goes on. View quote
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I wondered which was harder, in the end. The act of telling, or who you told it to. Or maybe if, when you finally got it out, the story was really all that mattered. View quote
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There has to be a middle. Without it, nothing can ever truly be whole. Because it is not just the space between, but also what holds everything together. View quote
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Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place. View quote
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So many versions of just one memory, and yet none of them were right or wrong. Instead, they were all pieces. Only when fitted together, edge to edge, could they even begin to tell the whole story. View quote
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An ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have the last word. View quote
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If this was my forever, I wouldn't want to spend it here. View quote
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Everything, in the end, comes down to timing. One second, one minute, one hour could make all the difference. View quote
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I just thought to my self, all of a sudden, that we had something in common. A natural chemistry, if you will. And I had a feeling that something big was going to happen. To both of us. That we were, in fact, meant to be together. View quote
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Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common. (Sarah Dessen)
I don't get it,' Caroline said, bemused. 'She's the only one with wings. Why is that?' There were so many questions in life. You couldn't ever have all the answers. But I knew this one. It's so she can fly,' I said. Then I started to run. View quote
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It was like when you're a little kid and you run into your teacher or librarian at the grocery store or Wal-mart and it's just so startling, because it never occurred to you they existed outside of school. View quote
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But if something was really important, fate made sure it somehow came back to you and gave you another chance. View quote
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Family isn't something that's supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They're born, they die. It's always evolving, turning into something else. View quote
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She fell, she hurt, she felt. She lived. And for all the tumble of her experiences, she still had hope. Maybe this next time would do the trick. Or maybe not. But unless you stepped into the game, you would never know. View quote
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for once, you believed in yourself. you believed you were beautiful and so did the rest of the world. View quote
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Only a weak person needed someone else around all the time. View quote
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I thought again how you could never really know what you were seeing with just a glance, in motion, passing by. Good or bad, right or wrong. There was always so much more. View quote
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He always did the leaving. But not this time. She kept walking, and did not look back. View quote
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Like a word on a page that you've printed and read a million times, that suddenly looks strange or wrong, foreign. And you feel scared for a second, like you've lost something, even if you're not sure what it is. (Sarah Dessen)
Sometimes a question can hurt more than an answer. View quote
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I realized how truly hard it was, really, to see someone you love change right before your eyes. Not only is it scary, it throws your balance off as well. View quote
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Pieces and parts were always easier to process. The full picture, the entire story, was another thing entirely. But you just never knew. Sometimes, people could surprise you. View quote
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Love is so unpredictable. That's what makes it so great. View quote
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