It took me years to figure out that upset was upset, and tumultuousness was not the same thing as passion. Love isn't drama.
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Deb Caletti
I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It’s okay if you have to leave us. It’s okay if you want to stop fighting.
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Gayle Forman
I'd heard of Evergreen Care Center before. Cass and I had always made fun of the stupid ads they ran on TV, featuring some dragged-out woman with a limp perm and big, painted-on circles under her eyes, downing vodka and sobbing uncontrollably. "We can't heal...
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Sarah Dessen
Rogerson, " I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, "where would I find the pelagic zone?"" In the open sea, " he said. "Now shut up and eat your Junior Mints.
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Sarah Dessen
Your mother won a special reward, " she told me, "because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all applauded.
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Sarah Dessen
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