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1 " The future was one thing that could never be broken, because it had not yet had the chance to be anything. "
― Sarah Dessen , Saint Anything
2 " You only really fall apart in front of the people you know can piece you back together. "
3 " We were there, together, and in the next room I could hear that monitor beeping. Keeping track of another heart’s beat and giving enduring, solid proof of our own. "
4 " I was used to being invisible. People rarely saw me, and if they did, they never looked close. I wasn't shiny and charming like my brother, stunning and graceful like my mother, or smart and dynamic like my friends. That's the thing, though. You always think you want to be noticed. Until you are. "
5 " You always think you want to be noticed. Until you are. "
6 " You get used to people being a certain way; you depend on it. And when they surprise you, for better or worse, it can shake you to your core. "
7 " What you do in your dreams is never your choice. But it made me happy anyway. "
8 " He had a nice smile. Seeing it, I felt like I’d won a prize, because he was so sparing with them. "
9 " That's the thing, though. You always think you want to be noticed. Until you are "
10 " For as long as I could remember, other people had either overshadowed me or left me out in the open, alone. But Mac, as Layla had said all those weeks ago, was always somewhere nearby. He left me enough space to stand alone, but stood at the ready for the moment that I didn’t want to. It was the perfect medium, I was learning. Like he was my saint, the one I’d been waiting for. "
11 " It seemed amazing to me that one night could hold so much, from a merry-go-round to a Pop-Tart with frosting to the most beautiful singing I'd ever heard. "
12 " All I want is someone decent.” She sniffled again, her eyes filling with tears. “You know? Kind. Good. Like in all those love stories I’m such an expert on. It can’t just be fiction. It can’t. Those guys are out there, I know it. I just can’t find them.” Those guys were out there. In fact, one was watching us right now, somewhere nearby. Keeping his distance, knowing she needed me to herself right then, but still, just outside the door. "
13 " I was in shock. Funny how the world works. You don’t get the something you really covet, but then the universe provides unexpected compensation. Here I thought you had to make a wish for it to come true. "
14 " Just because a person isn't talking about something doesn't mean it's not on their mind. Often, in fact, it's why they won't speak of it. "
15 " As I shut the door and started to walk away, I heard him say, "Hey. Sydney." "Yeah?""You had on a shirt with mushrooms on it, and your hair was pulled back. Silver earrings. Pepperoni slice. No lollipop."I just looked at him, confused. Layla was walking toward us now. "The first time you came into Seaside," he said. "You weren't invisible, not to me. Just so you know. "
16 " Each time I thought I'd felt all I could for him, there was more. "
17 " Nobody was all bad, I was learning. Even the worst person had someone who cared about them at some point" - Sydney Stanford "
18 " It was one thing to let these thoughts haunt the dark spaces of my mind, but another entirely to put them into the light, making them real. "
19 " My own life felt flat and sad too much of the time; it was reassuring, somehow, to lose myself in someone else's. "
20 " You only really fall apart in front of people you know can piece you back together. "
