Sarah Dessen - Along for the Ride (2009)

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It didn't make you noble to step away from something that wasn't working, even if you thought you were the reason for the malfunction. Especially then. It just made you a quitter. Because if you were the problem, chances were you could also be the solution. The only way to find out was to take another shot.

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It's not just where you go, but how you choose to get there.

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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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Really, it had been stupid to expect anything anyway. A few late nights does not a habit, or a relationship, make.

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Nah," I said. "But if it does, just tell him I said to get back on the bike." "What?" "He'll understand.

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From up above, in a plane passing over, you'd just see one little light in all this dark, with no idea of the lives that were being lived within it, and in the house beside, and beside that one. So much happening in the world, night and day, hour by hour. It was no wonder we were meant to sleep, if only to check out of it for a little while.

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Watching him, I thought, not for the first time that night, that maybe it should have felt strange to be with him, here, now. And yet it didn't, at all. That was one of the things about the night. Stuff that would be weird in the bright light of day just wasn't so much once you passed a certain hour. It was like the dark just evened it all out somehow.

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It's still a memory worth having, even if it's not exactly what you imagined.

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You just walk over there and into the office and say, 'Hey, be my prom date,'" he said. "It's that simple.

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You can't unlearn something, even if you want to. You know what you know.

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The truth was, I wasn't sure. But I wanted to keep believing people could change, and it was certainly easier to do so when you were in the midst of it.

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People don't change. If anything, you get more set in your ways as you get older, not less

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Oh darling, don't be bitter. It's the first instinct of the weak.

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Eventually, it wasn't even your dad I wanted, just anybody. Anybody at all.

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He was the closest thing I'd ever had to something, or someone, that mattered. But in the end, close didn't count. You were either in, or you weren't.

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Hollis " I said "you're messing with me right now aren't you You're in Paris or somewhere and just-" "What " he replied. "No This is the real deal. Here I'll prove it." There was a muffled noise followed by some static. Then I heard my mother recite at a distance in her most droll flat tone "Yes. It is true. Your brother is in love and in my kitchen.

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Friends are honest with each other. Even if the truth hurts. -Maggie

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Call it crazy, or just chicken salad. But within reason, or without it i was in it too.

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It shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something's difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder―or impossible―to lose.

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Just because we don't see eye to eye on everything doesn't mean we can't be close.

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What," I said, "is that a crime here or something? Like only buying one thing at the Gas/Gro?

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We didn't talk about our scars, the ones you could see and the ones you couldn't.

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It was so weird, because usually I was totally nervous talking to guys. But Eli was different. He made me want to say more, not less. Which was maybe not a good thing.

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It was so easy to disown what you couldn't recognize, to keep yourself apart from things that were foreign and unsettling. The only person you can be sure to control, always, is yourself. Which is a lot to be sure of, but at the same time, not enough.

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Maybe it was true, and being a girl could be about interest rates and skinny jeans, riding bikes and wearing pink. Not about any one thing, but everything.

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I waited. Because with Eli, he was never trying to get you to finish for him. He always knew where he was going, even if it took a little while to get there.

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Sometimes, you get things right the first time. Others, the second. But the third time, they say, is the charm.

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I wondered if emotions were like menstrual cycles, if you get enough women together. Give it time, and everyone was crying.

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An ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have the last word.

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Maybe we were all destined to just keep doing the same stupid things, over and over again, never really learning a single thing.

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