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The Truth About Forever

Name: The Truth About Forever
Author: Sarah Dessen

The Truth About Forever is Sarah Dessen's sixth novel. It was published in hardcover on May 11, 2004 and in paperback on April 6, 2006. In 2006 the audiobook adaptation of The Truth About Forever was one of the Young Adult Library Services Association's selected picks for that year.

“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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“If he'd been any other boy, and this was any other world, I would have kissed him. Nothing could have stopped me.”

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“That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.”

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“It was like that part of my life, was just gone. It was almost too easy, for something I once thought had meant everything.”

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“If this was my forever, I wouldn't want to spend it here.”

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“it sounded stupid, but of course everything does when you're just getting the bare bones facts, only the basics…”

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“None of it meant anything, and all of it was important.”

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“Everyone had a forever, but given a choice, this would be mine. The one that began in this moment, with Wes, in a kiss that took my breath away, then gave it back - leaving me astounded, amazed, and most of all, alive.”

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“Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.”

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“I'd wanted a real kiss, something to remember, but i'd long ago learned not to be picky with farewells. They weren't guaranteed or promised. You were lucky, more than blessed, if you got a goodbye at all.”

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Variant: But I'd long ago learned not to be picky in farewells. They weren't guaranteed or promised.
You were lucky, more than blessed, if you got a good-bye at all.
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“Fine just fine.”

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“Forever [is] so many different things. It is always changing… it is twenty minutes, or a hundred years, or just this instant, or any instant I wish would last and last”

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“Events conspired to bring you back to where you'd been. It was what you did then that made all the difference: it was all about potential.”

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“But as long as something is never even started, you never have to worry about it ending. It has endless potential.”

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