Do you want this to be a love story?
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Jenny Downham
It's all talk til it's all real walk.
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T.F. Hodge
Some things are only real because they represent what we think. When we learn the truth and think it, the old reality is no longer real to us and loses its hold on us. The truth sets us free.
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C. Terry Warner
I mean, it's impossible to fake anything if you've already seen the other person in a way they'd never choose for you to. You can't go back from that.
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Sarah Dessen
Mistakes are a fact of life: It is the response to the error that counts.
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Nikki Giovanni
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