You're not supposed to have it all figured out in high school. If you knew it all, and it was the best, it's all downhill from there.
Sarah DessenI am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.
Sarah DessenBut unfriendly is usually one of those things you pick up on right away. You know, like B.O. There's no hiding it if it's there.
Sarah DessenOnce, she'd been a pro at decompressing, loved to sit on the back deck of the beach house in one of our splintery Adirondack chairs for hours at a time, staring at the ocean. She never had a book or the paper or anything else to distract her. Just the horizon, but it kept her attention, her gaze unwavering. Maybe it was the absence of thought that she loved about being out there, the world narrowing to just the pounding of the waves as the water moved in and out.
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