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- Now, now," my father said. "Let's just get the bags." This was typical. My father, the lone male in our estrogen-heavy household, had always dealt…
- Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. It just doesn’t catch up, it overtakes … blotting out the future.
- No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something…
- Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.
- All I'd ever wanted was to forget. but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood floating up to…
- If you try anything, if you try to lose weight, or to improve yourself, or to love, or to make the world a better place,…
- Rogerson," I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, "where would I find the pelagic zone?" "In the open…
- Still, there was also was something reassuring about working for Commercial, almost hopeful. Like things that were lost could be found again. As we drove…
- I paused, only just now realizing that the subject was hitting a little close to home. "You know, getting hurt. Putting herself out there, opening…
- At the same time, though, I was beginning to wonder if this was just how it was supposed to be for me, like perhaps I…
- Look," I said, "We knew Jason and Becky would be back, the break would end. This isn't a surprise, it's what's supposed to happen. It's…
- Behind the camera, I was invisible. When I lifted it up to my eye it was like I crawled into the lens, losing myself there.…
- Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.
- Wake up, Caitlin, Mr. Lensing had said. But what he didn't underÂstand was that this dreamland was preferable, walking through this life half-sleeping, everything at…
- Well, it's New Year's now but I don't feel that way anymore. I wonder if you do either. Something's happening to me. It's like I'm…
- And that was as far as he got before i heard it. The thumping of footsteps, running up the lawn toward me: It seemed like…
- The girl in the tight black dress was passing by us now, eyeing Wes and walking entirely too slowly. "Hi," she said, and he nodded…
- 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…
- Because you can never go from going out to being friends, just like that. It's a lie. It's just something that people say they'll do…
- After all, it's all kinds of things that make up a life, right? The big, like falling in love and spending time with your family,…
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