That sucks, though," Wes said finally, his voice low. "You're just setting yourself up to fail, because you'll never get everything perfect." "Says who?" He just looked at me. "The world," he said, gesturing all around us, as if this party, this deck encompassed it all. "The universe. There's just no way. And why would you want everything to be perfect, anyway?" "I don't want everything to be perfect," I said. Just me, I thought. Somehow. "I just wantโ
Sarah DessenGrief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.
Sarah DessenYou can't make any one person your world. The trick is to take what each can give you and build a world from it.
Sarah DessenWith my mom, when someone was gone, they were gone. She didn't waste another minute thinking about them, and neither should you.
Sarah DessenSitting there with them, it was almost hard to remember when I first came to Perkins, so determined to remember to be a one-woman operation to the end. But that was the thing about taking help and giving it, or so I was learning; there was no such thing as really getting even. Instead, this connection, once opened, remained ongoing over time.
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