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I know. As if I'd ever go for him now that my dad wants me to date him." "As if you'd ever go for his again." "Right...right."
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Stephanie Perkins |
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We used to hang out all the time. St. Clair and me.But after you arrived,I hardly saw him. He'd sit next to you in class,at lunch,at the movies. And even though I was suspicious,I knew the first time I heard you call him Etienne-I knew you loved him.And I knew by his response-the way his eyes lit up you said it-I knew he loved you,too. And I ignored it,because I didn't want to believe it." The struggle rises inside me again. "I don't kn..
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Stephanie Perkins |
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Por ti. Solamente sera un viaje de veinte minutos a tu universidad, y viajare a diario para verte todas las noches. Viajaria diariamente diez veces simplemente para estar contigo todas las noches.
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Stephanie Perkins |
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My voice grows even smaller. 'Because I thought no one could love me.' 'And why did you think ' 'Because I didn't think I was worth loving.
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Stephanie Perkins |
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So will your father object to me? Because I'm not American? I mean, not fully American? He's not one of those mad, patriotic nuts,is he?" "No.He'll love you, you make me happy.He's not always so bad." St. Clair raises his dark eyebrows. "I know! But I said He still is the majority of the time.It's just...he means well. He thought he was doing good,sending me here." "And was it? Good?" "Look at you,fishing for compliments." "I wouldn't ob..
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Stephanie Perkins |
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I've always felt lucky to live someplace where snow is rare, you know? It's rareness that makes it so speacial.
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snow
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Stephanie Perkins |
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We talk about the shiny little nothings we see - people and cars and cathedrals, even la Tour Eiffel - but it's not that we don't have anything meaningful to say. The feeling is that we have everything to say. And where do you begin with everything?
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Stephanie Perkins |
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And even though he doesn't mean it like I-want-to-leave-my-girlfriend-and-start-dating-you cute, something flickers inside of me. The "force of strength and destruction" Tita de la Garza knew so well."
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Stephanie Perkins |
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I thought I did." Josh stares out over the city. "And then I knew I didn't, and she knew she didn't, but we stayed together, because...I don't know why. Maybe because we thought we should be in love. At least I did. I wanted to be in love." He looks back at me. "Have you ever been in love?"
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Stephanie Perkins |
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Porque tenia razon. Para nosotros dos, casa no es un lugar. Es una persona.
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Stephanie Perkins |
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Thr rareness, the specialness, of North. Of this night. She wished it could last forever. (It's a yuletide miracle, Charlie Brown)
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Stephanie Perkins |
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Don't be a chickenshit. Tell him how you feel." "What if he doesn't love me?" "He does." "What if he doesn't?" "Ugh, then who cares? You won't lose anything you haven't already lost."
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Stephanie Perkins |
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Mis botas de combate con plataformas abren el camino. Y mantengo mi cabeza en alto hacia mi gran entrada, de la mano del chico que me dio la luna y las estrellas.
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Stephanie Perkins |
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His eyes follow me everywhere, and we keep sharing smiles that feel like secrets.(Kiersten White)
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Stephanie Perkins |
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I'll only say this once more. I like you. I've always liked you. It would be wrong for me to come back into your life and act otherwise.
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lola-nolan
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You'll come home soon?" I ask. The question makes him smile. "Promise you won't forget me while I'm gone?" I smile back. "I promise." And as I walk away, I realize that I have no idea how I'll manage to stop thinking about him."
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Desde que puedo recordar, siempre he hablado con la luna. Le pido consejos. Hay algo profundamente espiritual en su palido resplandor, su superficie llena de crateres, sus crecientes y sus menguantes. Usa un vestido nuevo todas las noches pero siempre es ella misma. Y siempre esta ahi.
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Stephanie Perkins |
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I am trying really hard not to use the word 'fabulous' right now.
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lola-and-the-boy-next-door
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Stephanie Perkins |
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Isla was named after something, too, you know." "Don't you dare," I say. Josh sits forward. His eyes shine. "Do tell." "Prince. Edward. Island,"
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Stephanie Perkins |
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Wow. See? You can't say that's not impressive." I recognize the names, even if I don't know what they all did. "I didn't." He reaches for his wallet and pays our admission charge. I try to get it--since it was my idea in the first place--but he insists. "Happy Thanksgiving," he says, handing me my ticket. "Let's see some dead people." We're greeted by an unimaginable number of domes and columns and arches. Everything is huge and round."
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She's probably just tired of seeing you miserable.Like we all are," I add. "I'm sure...I'm sure she's as crazy about you as ever." "Hmm." He watches me put away my own shoes and empty the contents of my pockets. "What about you?" he asks, after a minute. "What about me?" St. Clair examines his watch. "Sideburns. You'll be seeing him next month." He's reestablishing...what? The boundary line? That he's taken, and I'm spoken for? Except I'm n..
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The thing I'm trying to ignore. The thing I shouldn't want, the thing I can't have. And he's standing in front of me right now. So what do I wish for? Something I'm not sure I want? Someone I'm not sure I need? Or someone I know I can't have? Screw it. Let the fates decide.
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I stay in bed for as long as possible, but eventually my bladder wins. When I come back from the bathroom, he's looking out my window. He turns around and laughs. "Your hair. It's sticking up in all different directions." St. Clair pronounces it and illustrates his point by poking his fingers up around his head like antlers. "You're one to speak." "Ah,but it looks purposeful on me. Took me ages to realize the best way to get that mussed l..
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My head jerks up in embarassment, but he's smiling. I drop my face, so that my hair shields my cheeks. They blush more for his smile than anything else.
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stephanie-perkins
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Stephanie Perkins |
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home isn't a place. It's a person.
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Stephanie Perkins |
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But isn't it better to be honest about these things before someone else can use them against you? Before someone else can break your heart? Isn't it better to break it yourself?
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Stephanie Perkins |
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You've spent all this time afraid to talk about what was going on between you two, but if you'd ever bothered to ask him, you would have discovered that he wasn't worth it.
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I keep my eyes on his bedspread--blue-and-white plaid, very male--and try to remember how Isla-of-the-past would have fainted if she could see Isla-of-the-present.
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Stephanie Perkins |
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He's so close, yet so far away." - Anna"
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Stephanie Perkins |
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People can play dumb all they want, but they always give themselves away in actions. In the small moments like that.
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Stephanie Perkins |
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Porque eso es lo que pasa con la depresion. Cuando la sientes profundamente, no quieres dejarla ir. Se convierte en una comodidad. Yo quiero cubrirme dentro de su peso y respirarla en mis pulmones. Quiero alimentarla, hacerla crecer, cultivarla. Es mia. Yo quiero ser una con ella, ir a la deriva envuelta en sus brazos y no despertar en un largo, largo tiempo.
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Stephanie Perkins |
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Artists are inspired by blank canvases.
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Stephanie Perkins |
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Love can be so sttange and sad. It can be hard to understand why we run toward certain people and away from others at different times in our lives. Why we search so hard for that thing we are looking for, and the run so fast when we find it. Sick Pleasure - Francesca Lia Block
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Stephanie Perkins |
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I've spent many dark nights trying to forget about Cricket. It doesn't feel fair that he could have forgotten about me.
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Stephanie Perkins |
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What's that?" "My friend St. Clair bought it for me. So I wouldn't feel out of place." She raises her eyebrows as she pulls back onto the road. "Are there a lot of Canadians in Paris?" My face warms. "I just felt,you know, stupid for a while. Like one of those lame American tourists with the white sneakers and the cameras around their necks? So he bought it for me, so I wouldn't feel....embarrassed. American." "Being American is nothing to ..
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I'm sorry," she whispers. "You're sorry? You've been dating Toph for the last month,and you're ?" "It just happened.I meant to tell you, I wanted to tell you-" "But you lost control over your mouth? Because it's easy,Bridge. Talking is easy. Look at me! I'm talking right-" "You know it wasn't that easy! I didn't mean for it to happen,it just did-" "Oh,you didn't mean to wreck my life? It just 'happened'?" Bridge stands up from behind her d..
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I am here. You can talk to me or not talk to me, but I am here.
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Stephanie Perkins |
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En Paris, es comun reconocer a alguien atractivo. El frances no desvia la mirada como otras culturas lo hacen. ?No te habias dado cuenta? St. Clair piensa que soy atractiva. Me llamo hermosa. --Creeme, no quieres dormir en mi cama. Me estoy tele transportando a Atlanta. Te estoy recogiendo, e iremos a algun lugar donde nuestras familias no nos encuentren. Nos llevaremos a Seany. Y le dejaremos correr todo lo que quiera hasta que se canse, y..
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Algunas personas son quisquillosas acerca de ir al cine solas, pero yo no. Porque cuando las luces se apagan, la unica relacion que queda en la sala es la que hay entre a pelicula y yo.
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Stephanie Perkins |
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the thing about depression. When I feel it deeply, I don't want to let it go. It becomes a comfort. I want to cloak myself under its heavy weight and breathe it into my lungs. I want
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Stephanie Perkins |
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I guess you never really know what's going on inside someone else's head.
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Stephanie Perkins |
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What are you doing?" He flops down next to me. "Checking your email? St. Clair snorts. "Give the lad a medal for his brilliant skills in detection."
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Stephanie Perkins |
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La puerta se cierra y St. Clair grita: --!Lola, Cricket quiere mostrarte su cosa tambieeen! --Ellos se rien mientras el eco de sus pisadas se aleja por el pasillo.
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Stephanie Perkins |
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You don't always have to solve your problems alone, you know. This is why people talk to their friends.
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