Gayle Forman - Where She Went (2011)

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Her hands were freezing, just like they always were, so I warmed them, just like I always did.

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There's a piece of lead where my heart should beat Doctor said too dangerous to take out You'd better just leave it be Body grew back around it, a miracle, praise be Now, if only I could get through airport security bullet

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Mia and I had been together for more than two years, and yes, it was a high school romance, but it was still the kind of romance where I thought we were trying to find a way to make it forever, the kind that, had we met five years later and had she not been some cello prodigy and had I not been in a band on the rise - or had our lives not been ripped apart by all this -I was pretty sure it would've been.

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One day she told me that they'd decided that my gender was divvied into two neat piles-Men and Guys. Basically, all the saints of the world: Men. The jerks, the players, the wet T-shirt contest aficionados? They were Guys.

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And the voice grows stronger and stronger, and it's my voice this time and it's asking a question: How does she know?

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Needle and thread flesh and bone Spit and sinew, heartbreak is home. Your suture lines, they sparkle like diamonds Bright stars to light my confinement Stitch,

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In that twisted incestuous way of fate, Mia's a part of our history, and we're among the shards of her legacy.

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I get it now. I have to make good on my promise. To let her go. To really let her go. To let us both go.

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All night long if you want. We'll tell our secrets to the dark.

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I don't hate you. I don't think I ever really did. It was just anger. And once I faced it head-on, once understood it, it dissipated.
Mia speaking

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Someone wake me when it's over When the evening silence softens golden Just lay me on bed of dover Oh, I need help with this burden "Hush

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The clothes are packed off to Goodwill I said my good-byes up on the hill The house is empty, the furniture sold Soon your smell will decay to mold Don't know why I bother calling, ain't nobody answering Don't know why I bother singing, ain't nobody listening "Disconnect" Collateral Damage, Track 10

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Whoever said that the past isn't dead had it backward. It's the future that's already dead, already played out.

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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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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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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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