Sarah Dessen - Hard Quotes

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You couldn't see the key around my neck: it hung too low under both collars. But if I leaned in close, I could make it out, buried deep beneath. Out of sight, hard to recognize, but still able to be found, even if I was the only one to ever look for it.

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I realized how truly hard it was, really, to see someone you love change right before your eyes. Not only is it scary, it throws your balance off as well.

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It was hard to remember what the yard had looked like even twelve hours before, undisturbed and pristine. Like it takes so little to change something, but to make you forget the way it once was, as well.

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Because it is so hard, in any life, to believe in what you can't fully understand.

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And while it is hard enough to take away something that makes a person happy it's even more difficult when it seems like it's the only thing.

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Needing was so easy: it came naturally, like breathing. Being needed by someone else, though, that was the hard part. But as with giving help and accepting it, we had to do both to be made complete-like links overlapping to form a chain, or a lock finding the right key.

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Leaving was easy. It was everything else that was so damned hard.

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Looking at her, I thought again how beautiful she was - even in jeans and a T-shirt, no makeup, she was breathtaking. So much so that it was hard to believe she could ever have looked at herself and seen anything else.

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It's not always easy being her daughter.' I think,' she said, 'sometimes it's hard no matter whose daughter you are.

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It's hard to do," I said. Wes looked at me. "What is?" I swallowed, not sure why I'd said this out loud. "Get it right.

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You could just tell when a person belonged somewhere. That is something you can't fake, no matter how hard you try

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Maybe it was just part of growing up with someone. Once you have a rhythm and stay with it long enough, it's not hard to find again.

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Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it.

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That was the hard thing about grief, and the grieving. They spoke another language, and the words we knew always fell short of what we wanted them to say.

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Sitting there with them, it was almost hard to remember when I first came to Perkins, so determined to remember to be a one-woman operation to the end. But that was the thing about taking help and giving it, or so I was learning; there was no such thing as really getting even. Instead, this connection, once opened, remained ongoing over time.

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Maybe not," she said as we came to the car. "But maybe that isn't so bad. You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it ends. The first boy is always the hardest to get over, Haven. It's just the way the world works.

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It is kind of hard to hold a lot in. But for me… it's sometimes even harder to let it out.

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