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You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.
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inspirational
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Sarah Dessen |
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Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.
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tough-times
strength
inspirational
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Sarah Dessen |
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What you have to decide... is how you want your life to be. If your forever was ending tomorrow, would this be how you'd want to have spent it? Listen, the truth is, nothing is guaranteed. You know that more than anybody. So dont be afraid. Be alive.
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inspirational
self-actualization
enjoy-life
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Sarah Dessen |
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The further you go, the more you have to be proud of. At the same time, in order to come a long way, you have to be behind to begin with. IN the end, though maybe it's not how you reach a place that matters. Just that you get there at all.
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inspirational
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Sarah Dessen |
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The future was one thing that could never be broken, because it had not yet had the chance to be anything.
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be-anything
sarah-dessen
unbroken
future
choice
wisdom
inspirational
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Sarah Dessen |
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It's funny how one summer can change everything. It must be something about the heat and the smell of chlorine, fresh-cut grass and honeysuckle, asphalt sizzling after late-day thunderstorms, the steam rising while everything drips around it. Something about long, lazy days and whirring air conditioners and bright plastic flip-flops from the drugstore thwacking down the street. Something about fall being so close, another year, another Chri..
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friendship
happiness
love
inspirational
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Sarah Dessen |
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I'd heard of Evergreen Care Center before. Cass and I had always made fun of the stupid ads they ran on TV, featuring some dragged-out woman with a limp perm and big, painted-on circles under her eyes, downing vodka and sobbing uncontrollably. "We can't heal you at Evergreen", the very somber voiceover said. "But we can help you to heal yourself." It had become our own running joke, applicable to almost anything
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fiction
romance
inspirational
drama
self-help
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Sarah Dessen |
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Rogerson," I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, "where would I find the pelagic zone?
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fiction
romance
inspirational
drama
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Sarah Dessen |
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When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed.
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someone-like-you
true
inspirational
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Sarah Dessen |
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Too many locks, not enough keys.
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life-quotes
inspirational
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Sarah Dessen |
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Your mother won a special reward," she told me, "because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all applauded.
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fiction
romance
inspirational
drama
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Sarah Dessen |
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But you, fine sir." John Miller clapped Dexter on the shoulder, a bit unsteadily. "You have problems of your own." "This is true," Dexter replied, nodding. "The women," John Miller sighed. Dexter wiped a hand over his face, and glanced down the road. "The women. Indeed, dear squire, they perplex me as well." "Ah, the fair Remy," John Miller said grandly, and I felt a flush run up my face. Lissa, in the front seat, put a hand to her mouth. "..
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Sarah Dessen |
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Failing sucks. But it's better than the alternative.
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eli-stock
inspirational
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Sarah Dessen |
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Adam picks up the camera] "I have to get a shot of this." The reaction in the room was swift, and unanimous: every single person except me raised their hands at once to cover their faces. The accompanying utterances, though, were varied. I heard everything from "Please no" (Maggie), to "Jesus Christ" (Wallace), to "Stop it or die" (I'm assuming it's obvious)."
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camera
photo
auden
eli
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Sarah Dessen |