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Sarah Dessen

"But it's important to acknowledge that while we may make mistakes, in the long run, we may also learn from them."

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"But it's important to acknowledge that while we may make mistakes, in the long run, we may also learn from them."

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"Fine," he repeated, and I wondered why it was I kept coming back to this, again and again, a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth."

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"I'd made my choice, though, and I couldn't take it back."

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"Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push, so to speak."

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"Restoring order of my personal universe suddenly seemed imperative, as I refolded my T-shirts, stuffed the toes of my shoes with tissue paper, and arranged all the bills in my secret stash box facing the same way, instead of tossed in sloppy and wild, as if by my evil twin. All week, I kept making lists and crossing things off them, ending each day with a sense of great accomplishment eclipsed only by complete and total exhaustion."

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