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When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed.

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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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Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.

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Nah," I said. "But if it does, just tell him I said to get back on the bike.""What?""He'll understand.

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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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Too many locks, not enough keys.

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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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She was dressing for the life she wanted, not the one she had.

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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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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, you have already achieved som...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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Failing sucks. But it's better than the alternative.""Which is?""Not even trying." Now he did look at me, straight on. "Life's short, you know?