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Sarah Dessen

" I felt tears prick my eyes as I looked down at the model again, looking at that girl and boy on the curb. Forever in that place, together. "

couples , crying

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" The future was one thing that could never be broken, because it had not yet had the chance to be anything. "

Future

" 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 you at Evergreen", the very somber voiceover said. "But we can help you to heal yourself." It had become our own running joke, applicable to almost anything. "Hey Cass, "I'd say, "hand me that toothpaste." "Caitlin," she'd say, her voice dark and serious. "I can't hand you the toothpaste. But I CAN help you hand the toothpaste to yourself. "

Drama , Fiction

" 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. "

Drama , Fiction

" When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed. "

Inspirational

" Your mother won a special reward," she told me, "because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all applauded. "

Drama , Fiction

" Failing sucks. But it's better than the alternative.""Which is?""Not even trying." Now he did look at me, straight on. "Life's short, you know? "

Inspirational

" It‚Äôs funny how one summer can change everything. It must be something about the heat and the smell of chlorine, fresh-cut grass and honeysuckle, asphalt sizzling after late-day thunderstorms, the steam rising while everything drips around it. Something about long, lazy days and whirring air conditioners and bright plastic flip-flops from the drugstore thwacking down the street. Something about fall being so close, another year, another Christmas, another beginning. So much in one summer, stirring up like the storms that crest at the end of each day, blowing out all the heat and dirt to leave everything gasping and cool. Everyone can reach back to one summer and lay a finger to it, finding the exact point when everything changed. That summer was mine. "

Happiness , Friendship

" Too many locks, not enough keys. "

Inspirational

" Plus there‚Äôs the fact,‚Äù he went on, making it clear he didn‚Äôt need me to reply anyway, ‚Äúthat music is a total constant. That‚Äôs why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in you or the world, that one song stays the same, just like that moment. Which is pretty amazing, when you actually think about it. "

Music , Inspirational

" So you're always honest," I said."Aren't you?""No," I told him. "I'm not.""Well, that's good to know, I guess.""I'm not saying I'm a liar," I told him. He raised his eyebrows. "That's not how I meant it, anyways.""How'd you mean it, then?""I just...I don't always say what I feel.""Why not?""Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said."Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though. "

Truth , Lies

" Macy: ‚ÄúIn Truth,‚Äù I said, ‚Äúthere are no rules other than you have to tell the truth.‚ÄùWes: ‚ÄúHow do you win?‚Äù he askedMacy: ‚ÄúThat,‚Äù I said, ‚Äúis such a boy question. "

Forever , macy

" The best gifts come from the heart, not the store. "

Gifts , Best

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