Sara Zarr - How to Save a Life (2011)

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I'm still going to love you, always. And in the rock-paper-scissors of life, love is rock. fear, anger, everthing else...no contest.

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Don't ask me how I am,' I blurt. 'Please.' I want to keep feeling good. Just because the lights are on doesn't mean I have to look.

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No one measures a life in weeks and days. You measure life in years and by the things that happen to you.

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Sometimes you should have something you don't need but that you want.

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I'm remembering how this works. How life doesn't have to be only anxiety about what's gone wrong or could go worng, and complaints about the world around you. How a person you're excited about can remind you there's stuff going on beyond... routine oil changes and homework. Stuff that matters. Stuff to look forward to.

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I know I shouldn't say this—I know it as surely as I know the earth is round and beats are evil—and yet here it comes: It's not too late to change your mind.

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It's as if once you hit high school, you're programmed, like a robot, to be an asshole to your parents.

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He felt it too, the air between us, the invisible lines that something or someone had drawn to connect us. That's the way I remember it.

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I never had a connection like that to anyone, where every day you think about what you'll tell them and you wonder what they're doing, and you know they're wondering what you're doing.

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The kind of life I want is to be a person who would get a personal note every day.

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That's how life feels to me. Everyone is doing it; everyone knows how. To live and be who they are and find a place, find a moment. I'm still waiting.

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