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It’s funny how one summer can change everything.
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It wasn't until Kiffney-Brown, when I met Jason Talbot, that I really thought I might actually have one of those boyfriend kind of stories to tell the next time I got together with my old friends. Jason was smart, good-looking, and seriously on the rebound after his girlfriend at Jackson dumped him for, in his words, 'a juvenile delinquent welder with a tattoo'.
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I was born in 1970 in Illinois, but all the life I remember I've spent in Chapel Hill, N.C.
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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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Really? Screaming?” He shrugged. “It wasn’t that bad. But there were definitely some freak-outs on both sides. Though, to be honest, the silence was worse.” “Worse than screaming?” I said. “Much,” he said, nodding. “I mean, at least with an argument, you know what’s happening. Or have some idea. Silence is… it could be anything. It’s just –” “So freaking loud,” I finished for him. He pointed at me. “Exactly.
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I think I'm too lazy a writer to do something like historical fiction. You have to do so much research. I just write what I know.
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It is kind of hard to hold a lot in. But for me… it’s sometimes even harder to let it out.
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Maybe it was just part of growing up with someone. Once you have a rhythm and stay with it long enough, it's not hard to find again.
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Grieving doesn't make you imperfect. It makes you human.
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I wondered if emotions were like menstrual cycles, if you get enough women together. Give it time, and everyone was crying.
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I always wrote about girls that went to the beach and had that summer that changed everything. So I was interested in what it would be like to live in a tourist town where everyone has these life changing experiences, but your whole life is there.
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I'm incredibly flattered when people tell me that my books helped them through high school. Because of my own experience, the thought that something I wrote might help someone who felt the way I did when I was a teen...that's huge. It awes me.
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I was actually pretty miserable in high school. I couldn't wait for it to be over. And when it finally was, I remember sitting at graduation with all these classmates getting nostalgic and emotional already and all I could think was, "Get me out of here. I never want to see you people again." So it's ironic that I spend half my day putting myself back there by choice [while writing].
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I've always written in first person. It gives the readers more insight.
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I planned my whole future around Adam," she said now, quietly. "And now I have nothing." "No," I told her, "now you just don't have Adam. There's a big difference, Lissa. You just can't see it yet.
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Maybe my sister and I shared more than we thought. We were both waiting and wishing for something we couldn't completely control: I wanted to be alone, and she the total opposite. It was weird, really, to have something so contrary in common. But at least it was something.
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I was beginning to see, though, that the unknown wasn't always the greatest thing to fear. The people who know you best can be risker, because the words they say and things they think have the potential to be not only scary but true, as well.
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People don't change. If anything, you get more set in your ways as you get older, not less
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People get mad Annabel. Its not the end of the world.
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And always remember how much your crazy sister loves you.
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I think readers are just looking for things that maybe they recognize or can relate to in the books.
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I just thought to my self, all of a sudden, that we had something in common. A natural chemistry, if you will. And I had a feeling that something big was going to happen. To both of us. That we were, in fact, meant to be together.
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Don't be a fool. Don't give up something important to hold onto someone who can't even say they love you.
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She took the sun when it came and the rain the same way.
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