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The little things that happen. Sometimes they're insignificant; other times, they change everything.
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Life might take you down different roads. But each of you gets to decide which one to take.
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You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end of the day, it's out of your control -Mia
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But it's a big ocean. It's an even bigger world. And maybe we've gotten as close as we're supposed to get.
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There were signs. Probably more of them than I ever caught, even after the fact. But I missed them all. Maybe because I wasn't looking for them. I was too busy checking over my shoulder at the fire I'd just come through to pay much attention to the thousand-foot cliff looming in front of me.
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So let's hear another one of your irrational fears. Mia grasped me by the arms and pulled herself in to my chest, like she was burrowing her body into mine. "I'm scared of losing you," she said in the faintest of voices." I pushed her away so I could see her face and kissed the top of her forehead. "I said 'irrational' fears. Because that's not gonna happen.
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She said if she couldn't play, she had nothing left. What about me?
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I'll be your mess, you be mine That was the deal that we had signed I bought a hazmat suit to clean up your waste Gas masks, gloves, to keep us safe But now i'm alone in an empty room Staring down immaculate doom "Messy
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I've blamed her for all of this, for leaving, for ruining me. And maybe that was the seed of it, but from that one little seed grew this tumor of a flowering plant. And I'm the one who nurtures it. I water it. I care for it.I nibble from its poison berries. I let it wrap around my neck, choking the air right out of me. I've done that. All by myself. All to myself.
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Sometimes the wind blows you places you weren't expecting: sometimes it blows you away from those places, too.
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We were both music-obsessed, each in our own way. If we didn't entirely understand the other person's obsession, it didn't matter, because we understood our own.
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We kiss again. This next kiss is the kind that breaks open the sky. It steals my breath and gives it back. It shows me that every other kiss I've had in my life has been wrong.
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Neither sleet nor rain nor a half inch of snow will compel me to dress like a lumberjack.
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All relationships are tough. Just like with music, sometimes you have harmony and other times you have cacophony.
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If I felt like a fish out of water in my family, I felt like a fish on Mars in Adam's circle.
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Don't be scared...Women can handle the worst kind of pain. You'll find out one day.
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My first impulse is not to grab her or kiss her or yell at her. I simple want to touch her cheek, still flushed from the night's performance. I want to cut through the space that separates us, measured in feet-not miles, not continents, not years-and to take a callused finger to her face.
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And that's just it, isn't it? That's how we manage to survive the loss. Because love, it never dies, it never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it.
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First you inspect me Then you dissect me Then you reject me I wait for the day That you'll resurrect me "Animate
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If these walls could talk, I wonder what secrets they'd tell.
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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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You talked to me, but you didn't. I could see you having these two-sided conversations. The things you wanted to say to me. And the words that actually came out.
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Love is not something you protect. It's something you risk.
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I am adrenaline slammed into inertia: a fast car stuck in traffic.
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The world feels so big when you're out in the wide open. It's like you don't have a place in it when you don't have a home." "Your place is right here," I whispered, laying down and hugging her close.
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
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Born:
June 5, 1970
(age 53)
Bio:
Gayle Forman is an American young adult fiction author, best known for her novel If I Stay which topped the New York Times best sellers list of Young Adult Fiction and was made into a film of the same name.
Known for:
If I Stay (2009)
Where She Went (2011)
Just One Day (2013)
Just One Year (2013)
Just One Night (2014)
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