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#1. You okay?"
It's a residential street, but it's not the street of the party.
I shake my head no.
"Are you going to be okay?" he asks.
I lean back, resting my head against the seat, and close my eyes. "I miss her.

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#2. People grow apart, and sometimes, there nothing anyone can do about it.

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#3. As a writer, my only responsibility is to tell a compelling story.

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#4. I'm a...paperback, write-in-the-margins kind of girl.

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#5. A rumor started a reputation that other people believed in and reacted to. And sometimes a rumor has a snowball effect. A rumor, is just the beginning.

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#6. See, I'm not a very good musician.

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#7. Rejection always hurt, but having it come from my best friend was worst

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#8. Things get better, or worse, depending on your point of view.

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#9. One of these things is not like the others. One of these things just doesn't belong.

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#10. Unanswered? I would've answered any question, Hannah. But you never asked.

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#11. It seemed like you could know me. Like you could understand anything I told you. And the more we spoke, I knew why. The same things excited us. The same things concerned us.

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#12. If you hear a song that makes you cry and you don't want to cry anymore, you don't listen to that song anymore.

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#13. Because I've heard so many stories that I don't know which one is the most popular. But I do know which is the least popular. The truth.

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#14. A week went by and nothing. But eventually, as they always will, the rumors reached me. And everyone knows you can't disprove a rumor.

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#15. No one know for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue.

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#16. But sometimes there's nothing left to do but move on.

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#17. Here's a tip. If you touch a girl, even as joke, and she pushes you off, leave ... her ... alone. Don't touch her. Anywhere! Just stop. Your touch does nothing but sicken her.

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#18. Everything about it was false. Right then, in that office, with the realization that no one knew the truth about my life, my thoughts about the world were shaken.

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#19. In the end....everything matters.

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#20. Right, but he also thinks every episode of Friends is life-changing. Josh

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#21. How in the world was I alone? Because I wanted to be. That's all I can say. It's all that makes sense to me.

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#22. And then ... well ... certain thoughts begin creeping around. Will I ever get control of my life? Will I always be shoved back and pushed around by those I trust? Will my life ever go where I want it to?

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#23. Her words, they're not warm anymore. She might want me to hear them that way, but they're burning me up instead. In my mind. In my heart

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#24. This was not a spurr-of-the-moment decision. Do not take me for granted ... again.

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#25. I take a slow sip of lukewarm coffee, reopen the book, and read the words scribbled in red ink near the top: Everyone needs an olly-olly-oxen-free.

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#26. Because it may seem like a small role now, but it matters. In the end, everything matters.

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#27. He's doing sit-ups in his tighy-whities! His chest looks toned, but ... tighty-whities?

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#28. Don't give up on me now. I'm sorry. I guess that's an odd thing to say. Because isn't that what I'm doing? Giving up?

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#29. You can't stop the future You can't rewind the past The only way to learn the secret ... is to press play.

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#30. Fun drunks make a nice addition to any party. Not looking to fight. Not looking to score. Just looking to get drunk and laugh.

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#31. Nothing. It's ridiculous," he says. "I don't belong on those tapes. Hannah just wanted an excuse to kill herself." I

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#32. Maybe you didn't know what people thought of you because they themselves didn't know what they thought of you. Maybe you didn't give us enough to go on, Hannah.

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#33. Trust me, not every girl would give up his sweatshirt just because a girl asks.

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#34. You have so little control over anything anymore. And at some point, the struggle becomes too much - too tiring - and you consider letting go.

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#35. I hate not knowing what to believe anymore. I hate not knowing what's real.

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#36. People think what they want. That's what I've had to accept," he says. "I can fight it, but that's exhausting. I can feel hurt about it, but that's torture. Or I can decide it's their loss.

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#37. And I kept thinking, over and over, is this what it feels like to go insane?

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#38. Words too soft for me to hear at this distance. But in the end, the words reach me.

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#39. Everything seemed good, but I knew it had the potential to be awful.

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#40. As she does, she turns her hand over, lacing her fingers into mine. For as many nerve endings as I thought I had in my hand, I now realize there are a hundred times more.

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#41. Step-by-step. That's how we'll get through this. One foot in front of the other.

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#42. No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same.

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#43. Good for her, I guess. Cody's a conceited dick, but whatever makes her happy.

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#44. But they were wrong. There was a reason.

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#45. I didn't humiliate him by pointing it out because that's not how you treat friends. You don't judge them. You don't humiliate them. I bet he's been judging me all along.

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#46. You can hear rumors. But you can't know them.

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#47. Watching those guys pummel each other so no one would suspect them of being weak was too much for me. Their reputations were more important than their faces.

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#48. Teens in the '90s had the same basic desires as they do now.

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#49. My heart and my trust were in the process of collapsing. And that collapse created a vacuum in my chest.

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#50. I swear, guys in groups are capable of the stupidest things."
"Like war," Kellan says, heaping napkins and ketchup packets onto her tray.
"And jumping off rooftops."
"And lighting their farts on fire," she says.

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#51. His door is closed behind me. It's staying closed. He's letting me go. I think I've made myself very clear, but no ones stepping forward to stop me. A lot of you cared, just not enough. And that ... that is what i needed to find out. And I did find out. And I'm sorry.

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#52. The Golden Rule will always be good advice!

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#53. History's a bitch when you're in the middle of it.

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#54. God, I am freaking out. Maybe he doesn't know. Maybe I just look guilty of something and he's picking up on that.

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#55. Now, the truth is the one you won't forget.

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#56. Emma:"He broke your heart! How can you call it love when he
hurt you so badly?"
Kellan:"It was love
because it was worth it.

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#57. Josh turns to me. "I can't believe she's writing these things." "Not she," I say. "Me." "Why would anyone say this stuff about themselves on the Internet? It's crazy!" "Exactly," I say. "I'm going to be mentally ill in fifteen years, and that's why my husband doesn't want to be around me.

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#58. If I had a chance with him, I missed it. No, I didn't miss it. I threw it away.

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#59. You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is ... now.

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#60. Actually, I love trying to figure out why certain books become hits while others, which may be just as good, have trouble finding an audience.

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#61. One day, at least it seemed that fast, she just stopped wanting to be a part of anything.

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#62. I want to collapse. I want to fall on the sidewalk right them and drag myself to the ivy.

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#63. When someone says your name like that, when they won't even look you in the eyes, there is nothing more you can do or say. Their mind is made up.

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#64. Could be my soul mate / two kindred spirits / Maybe we're not / I guess we'll never / know

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#65. It may seem that every time someone offers you a hand up, they just let go and you slip further down.

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#66. Whenever I'm out late she makes a sandwich for my school lunch. I always protest and tell her not to, saying I'll make my own when I get home. But she likes it. She says it reminds her of when I was younger and needed her.

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#67. It's nothing. A school project. My go-to answer for anything. Staying out late? School project. Need extra money? School project.

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#68. When you hold people up for ridicule, you have to take responsibility when other people act on it.

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#69. I'm sorry. Once again, those were the words. And now, anytime someone says I'm sorry, I'm going to think of her.

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#70. One little ripple started today could create a typhoon fifteen years from now.

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#71. I stood there and watched you disappear. Forever

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#72. Sometimes, there's no one around to tell you to be quiet... to be very, very quiet. Sometimes you need to be quiet when you're all alone.

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#73. Unsure of what I was. An optimist? A pessimist?
Neither. A fool.

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#74. It reminded me of innocence. And I wanted my first kiss to be just that. Innocent.

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#75. It seemed that I was the only one who cared about me.

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#76. Because our lies matched. It was a sign.

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#77. No!
I scream through the bars. Over the trees."No!"
Do not let her leave.
Do not let her leave that room!
He's not coming.

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#78. I needed a break... from myself.

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#79. And after I dropped him off, I took the longest possible route home ... I explored alleys and hidden roads I never knew existed. I discovered neighborhoods entirely new to me. And finally ... I discovered I was sick of this town and everything in it.

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#80. Expose yourself," they said. "Let us see your deepest and your darkest."
My deepest and my darkest? What are you, my gynecologist?

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#81. I simply wanted a kiss. I was a freshman girl who had never been kissed. Never. But I liked the boy, he liked me, and I was going to kiss him. That's the story, the whole story, right there.

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#82. That's when I said it. That's when I whispered to her, "I'm so sorry." Because inside, I felt so happy and sad at the same time. Sad that it took me so long to get there. But happy that we got there together.

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#83. And i walked for hours the mist growing thick and whole the thought of disappaering like that, so simply, made me so happy

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#84. Betrayal. It's one of the worst feelings.

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#85. We all know the sound a camera makes when it snaps a picture. Even some of the digitals do it for nostalgia's sake.

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#86. Definitely beats my first kiss. Seventh grade, Andrea Williams, behind the gym after school. She came over to my table at lunch, whispered the proposition in my ear, and I had a hard-on for the rest of the day.

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#87. I wonder if she means Graham. His locker is near mine, so I get to see him pull Emma into a groping session every morning.
It always fills me with so much joy.

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#88. The longer you wait, and this is true, the slower the hands will move.

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#89. It's hard to be disappointed when what you expected turns out to be true.

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#90. Because when you're posed, you know someone's watching. You put on your very best smile. You let your sweetest personality shine.

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#91. If not for that party, I never would have met the real you. But for some reason, and I am extremely grateful, you gave me that chance. However brief it was, you gave me a chance. And I liked the Hannah I met that night. Maybe I could've even loved her. But

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#92. That girl had two chances. And both of us let her down.

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#93. Around the opposite sex, especially back then, my tongue twisted into knots even a Boy Scout would walk away from

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#94. But you can't get away from yourself. You can't decide not to see yourself anymore. You can't decide to turn off the noise in your head.

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#95. Why can't you go back to playing princess?" "I never played princess." "Are you kidding?" he says. "Whenever Heather's mom took the two of you to the parade, you wore your fanciest dress, pretending to be the Winter Queen." "Exactly!" I say. "Queen, not princess. You raised me better than that.

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#96. I decided to find out how people at school might react if one of the students never came back.

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#97. Will I ever get control of my life? Will I always be shoved back and pushed around by those I trust?

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#98. Here, Courtney, is your contribution to the anthology of my life.
Did you like that? The anthology of my life?
I just made it up.

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#99. You need to figure out what you want, Josh. If that means you need to swim against the tide to get it, at least youre aiming for something that could make you very happy.

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#100. Because if I hadn't been so afraid of everyone else, I might have told Hannah that someone cared. And Hannah might still be alive.

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