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We make such messes in this life, both accidently and on purpose. But wiping the surface clean doesn't really make anything any neater. It just masks ...more

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Because you have to just go with the flow. Your life is not your own, with people coming in and out all the time. You get mellow because you have to.

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I wasn’t ready to think about the other yet: that it wasn’t that I wasn’t right for Macon, but that maybe he wasn’t right for me. There was a differen...more

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I remembered Owen telling me how music had saved him in Phoenix, that it drowned everything out, and it was the same for me now. As long as I had some...more

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Maybe if I'd agreed to do the debutante thing like she wanted. Or taken up pageants instead of riding jump bikes with a bunch of grungy boys. I'd alwa...more

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It was so risky and so scary, and yet at the same time, so beautiful. Maybe the truth was, it shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would b...more

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It all counts,' Adam said again. 'And the bottom line is, what defines you isn't how many times you crash, but the number of times you get back on the...more

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

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To me, summer has always been about potential. This was especially true when I was in high school. Those 3 or so months between 1 school year and the ...more

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If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.

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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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You get used to people being a certain way; you depend on it. And when they surprise you, for better or worse, it can shake you to your core.

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You always think you want to be noticed. Until you are.

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That's the thing, though. You always think you want to be noticed. Until you are

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I'm sorry," I heard him say again. Then, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a sudden blur of movement as he slid out of his seat, left some bills for ...more