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School was my solace, and studying let me escape, allowing me to live a thousand vicarious lives.

School was my solace, and studying let me escape, allowing me to live a thousand vicarious lives.
– Sarah Dessen

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  22. It was great. Freedom even the imagined kind always is. – Sarah Dessen
  23. I would miss Colby, but it wasn’t going anywhere. All the more reason why I should. – Sarah Dessen
  24. Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push, so to speak. – Sarah Dessen
  25. Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common. – Sarah Dessen
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  27. …You can’t unlearn something, even if you want to. You know what you know. – Sarah Dessen
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  32. Believe in yourself up here and it will make you stronger than you could ever imagine. – Sarah Dessen
  33. The important thing to remember, … is that you are a human being and worthy of respect. – Sarah Dessen
  34. I’d been through so much, falling short again and again, and only recently had found a place where who I was, right now, was enough. – Sarah Dessen
  35. Isn’t that the way everything begins? A night, a love, a once and for all. – Sarah Dessen
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  37. … Everything he feels, he feels strongly. Too strongly, sometimes. I think he freaks people out. – Sarah Dessen
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