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Jennifer E. Smith

Clare’s been called a lot of things- smart and funny, driven and talented- but memorable certainly isn’t one of them. The most important things about her- the ones she’s most proud of- are apparent only once you get to know her.

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Jennifer E. Smith

Childhood memories were like airplane luggage; no matter how far you were traveling or how long you needed them to last, you were only ever allowed two bags

childhood, memories

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She filed those moments away like precious documents, wore them smooth with memory, collected them like bits of prayers.

Jennifer E. Smith

And being here like this, so suddenly close to him is enough to make her lightheaded. It’s a feeling like falling.

Jennifer E. Smith

But the crowds are surging around them and her backpack is heavy on her shoulders and the boy’s eyes are searching hers with something like loneliness , like the very last thing he wants is to be left behind right now. And that’s something Hadley can understand, too, and so after a moment she nods in agreement, and he tips the suitcase forward onto it’s wheels, and they begin to walk.

beginnings, understanding

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Here. There. Everywhere. Somewhere. Home.

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And the geography of the thing–the geography of them–was completely and hopelessly wrong.

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Just because you painted a house didn’t mean the furniture inside was any different. It had to be the same with people.

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They were just so different, and she kept wondering if he’d realize this was a mistake at some point; if, once she stopped being the novelty, the random American, he would recognize who she really was — a nerdy bookworm, a happy loner — and move on.

bookish, bookworm, cute, different, loner, love, young-adult

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…and it struck her as the truest form of kindness, the most basic sort of love: to be worried about the one who was worrying about you.

love, pure-love, worry, young-adult

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Because even this –being so close to her –was no longer the same. That light he’d felt when he first saw her –he understood now that it was only a lightbulb. It was quick and easy, full of electricity, but there was something artificial about it. What he wanted was fire: heat and spark and flame.

fall-out-of-love, fire, gone, love, young-adult

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and the boy’s eyes are searching hers with something like loneliness, like the very last thing he wants is to be left behind right now.

last, loneliness, love