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I don't think anybody ever really knows what's going to happen, " he said. "We're all just out here hoping for the best.Sarah Dessen
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What was it like to be so confident even in your failings that you weren't the least bit bothered when other people pointed them out? I was almost envious.Sarah Dessen
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Isn't that the way everything begins? A night, a love, a once and for all.Sarah Dessen
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Everything in life had its phases, and if you were smart, you learned to appreciate them all. What really mattered, though, were the people in those moments with you. Memories are what we have and what we keep, and I held mine close. The ones I knew well, like a night on the beach with a boy who would always live in my heart, and the ones yet to come with another.Sarah Dessen
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For you, I wish for second chancesSarah Dessen
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I put my pen to the paper and began to write. I’d made so many wishes for so many couples quietly in my head as they drove away, but writing the words out made it seem more real, possible. For them, and maybe for me. F O R YOU, I WISH FOR SECOND CHANCES.I folded it shut, then put it on the wall before I could change my mind, right above Jilly’s. As Michael Salem called out to her and she started his way, I crossed the backyard, moving toward the music. When I looked back at the wish wall from a distance, it was a sea of squares: I couldn’t even find mine among them. So many things we ask for, hope for, prayers put out into a world so wide: there was no way they could all be answered. But you had to keep asking. If you didn’t, nothing even had a chance of coming true.Sarah Dessen
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You stop believing in wishes when the only one you want to make can never come true.Sarah Dessen