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This Lullaby

Name: This Lullaby
Author: Sarah Dessen

Sarah Dessen

This Lullaby is a young adult novel written by Sarah Dessen.

“Wherever you will go,
I will let you down,
But this lullaby goes on.”

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“You know, when it works, love is amazing. It's not overrated.”

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Variant: You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs.
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“Despite our differences, we did have a history. No one understood where I was coming from the way he did.”

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“The fate of your heart is your choice and no one else gets a vote”

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“I didn't trot my pain out to show around. I kept it better hidden than anyone. I did.”

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“He'd always had that fearless optimism that made cynics like me squirm. I wondered if it was enough for both of us. I would never know from here, though. And time was passing. Crucial minutes and seconds, each one capable of changing everything.”

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“Writing a novel is like childbirth: once you realize how awful it really is, you never want to do it again.”

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Variant: She said writting novels was like childbirth: if you truly remembered how awful it got, you'd never do it again.
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“The chances we take, knowing no better than to fall or to stand back and hold ourselves in… protecting our hearts with the tightest of grips.”

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“Just me and the future, finally together. Now there was a happy ending I could believe in.”

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“And for one second, it was like I could feel the timing clicking together, finally pieces falling into place.”

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“Did you really believe, that first day, that we were meant to be together?" I asked him.
He looked at me and then said, "You're here, aren't you?”

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Variant: Remy: Did you really believe, that first day, that we were meant to be together?

Dexter: You're here, aren't you?
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“But I always worked harder when I was up against something, or when someone assumed I couldn't succeed. That's what drove me, all those nights studying. The fact that so many figured I couldn't do it.”

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“Maybe marriage, like life, isn't only about the big moments, whether they be good or bad. Maybe it's all the small things—like being guided slowly forward, surely, day after day—that stretches out to strengthen even the most tenuous bond.”

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“I planned my whole future around Adam," she said now, quietly. "And now I have nothing." "No," I told her, "now you just don't have Adam. There's a big difference, Lissa. You just can't see it yet.”

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“Right now, though, I wanted not to think forward or backward, but only to lose myself in the words.”

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“She fell, she hurt, she felt. She lived. And for all the tumble of her experiences, she still had hope. Maybe this next time would do the trick. Or maybe not. But unless you stepped into the game, you would never know.”

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“It seemed like this day could go in so many directions, like a spiderweb shooting out toward endless possibilities.”

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“I knew this feeling, the 2 a. m. loneliness that I'd practically invented.”

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“Life isn't only about the big moments whether they be good or bad. Maybe it’s about the small things that stretch out to strengthen the most tenuous bound.”

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“But for now, I just sat there on the bed and listened to my song. The one that had been written for me by a man who knew me not at all, now sung by the one who knew me best.”

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