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The thing is, you can’t always have the best of everything. Because for a life to be real, you need it all: good and bad, beach and concrete, the familiar and the unknown, big talkers and small towns.Sarah Dessen
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I would miss Colby, but it wasn't going anywhere. All the more reason why I should.Sarah Dessen
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It's funny how two people can grow up in the same town, go to the same school, have the same friends, and end up so totally different. Family, or lack of it, counts for more than you'd think.Sarah Dessen
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I'm sorry, " I heard him say again. Then, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a sudden blur of movement as he slid out of his seat, left some bills for the breakfast he wouldn't eat, and walked away. And as he did, I thought again of those mornings in the hallway at school, way back in ninth grade. Everything had started in such sharp detail, each aspect pronounced and clear. Obviously, endings were different. Harder to see, full of shapes that could be one thing or another, with all the things that you were once so sure of suddenly not familiar, if they were even recognizable at all.Sarah Dessen
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Someone who normally moved so slowly, this time, for once, was long gone.Sarah Dessen
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You think it's all obvious and straightforward, this world. But really, it's all in who is doing the looking.Sarah Dessen
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If June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juice middle, August was suddenly feeling like the bitter end.Sarah Dessen
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With love like that, you can't get pick about how it finds you or the details. All that matters is that it's there. Better late than never.Sarah Dessen