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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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As I rolled over, stretching out, my only thought was to go back to the dream I'd been having, which I couldn't remember, other than that it had been ...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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It didn't make you noble to step away from something that wasn't working, even if you thought you were the reason for the malfunction. Especially then...more

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I don't know," I said. "What else did you do for your first eighteen years?""Like I said," he said as I unlocked the car, "I'm not so sure that you sh...more

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Life is full of screwups. You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existance.

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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