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This Lullaby

This Lullaby
Sarah Dessen

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

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“Maybe, you just misplaced it, you know? It's been there. But you just haven't been looking in the right spot. Because lost means forever, it's gone. But misplaced… that means it's still around, somewhere. Just not where you thought.”

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“The only thing I can't stand more than seeing something done wrong is seeing it done slowly.”

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“I can say I made a lot of mistakes, but I don't regret things. Because at least I didn't spend a life standing outside, wondering what living would be like.”

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“Once, I was easy. Now, I was choosy. See? Big difference.”

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“But it was too early to know: there were always more pages to go, more words to be written, before the story was over.”

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“Everything, in the end, comes down to timing. One second, one minute, one hour could make all the difference.”

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“Oh, God," I said.
"No, it's Dexter," he replied, offering me his hand, which I ignored.
He glanced behind him, then back at me. "I'll see you soon," he said, and grinned at
me.
"Like hell," I replied”

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“And I felt a sudden whirl in my head, knowing this leap was inevitable, that I wasn't just standing on the cliff, toes poking over, but already in mid-air.”

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“It doesn't matter, anyway, why you like me. Just that you do.”

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“In those first few hours officially single again the world seems like it expands, suddenly bigger and more vast now that you have to get through it alone.”

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“This is what daughters did. They left, and came home later with lives of their own.”

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“Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.”

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“So many times it seemed like there were chances to stop things before they started. Or even stop them in midstream. But it was even worse when you knew in that very moment that there was still time to save yourself, and yet you couldn't even budge.”

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“I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.”

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“I bet you can't eat ten bananas!"
"I bet you're right.”

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“Don't give me no rotten tomato, 'cause all I ever wanted was your sweet potato.”

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Variant: Don't you give me no rotten tomato," Dexter sang, "just 'cause to your crazy shit I
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“I am not breaking my rules,' I snapped, hating that I'd ended up on the advice-recieving end of things, jumping from Dear Remy to Confused in Cincinnati all in one summer.”

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“Are those the only options? Nothing or forever?”

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“Love is so unpredictable. That's what makes it so great.”

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