Jessica Sorensen

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When it all comes down to it, it’s just me and her against the world. Always has been.
- Jessica Sorensen
Collection: World
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It's amazing how the things you remember forever are the things you'd rather forget and the things you desperately want to grasp onto seem to slip away like sand in the wind.
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Collection: Wind
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So she searches for light, only to realize it's in her, like an ember equipped to ignite.
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Collection: Light
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Sometimes the best things are the ones that aren’t planned, the decisions made while living in the moment.
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Collection: Decision
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I’m pretty certain my worthless heart shatters inside my chest, and she steals one of the pieces. If it didn’t already belong to someone else I probably would have handed her all the pieces right then and there.
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Collection: Heart
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But sometimes stuff happens and we find ourselves lost, and suddenly we're standing in a place we don't recognize and can't remember walking-or falling-there, and we're unsure how to get back or if we even want to.
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Collection: Fall
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I don't believe that. I don't believe that there are bad things about you. Only things that you think are bad.
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Collection: Believe
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I search my brain for the truth. “I want it more than anything, just as long as you promise me one thing.” “And what’s that?” “That if at any time it gets to be too much for you, you’ll leave me—walk away and get out.” “That will never happen,” he guarantees me. “You need to give me some credit. You left me, ripped out my heart, and then came back acting like a robot, and you know what? We made it through. You and I, good or bad, belong together. We make each other whole.
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Collection: Heart
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That’s you. Callie, you’re the only person that’s ever made me feel happy about anything. That night you saved me, you changed something in me—you made me want to live.
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Collection: Night
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You left me, ripped out my heart, and then came back acting like a robot, and you know what? We made it through. You and I, good or bad, belong together. We make each other whole.
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Collection: Heart
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I try not to laugh at the fact that even when she’s drunk, she has a hard time saying it. “Where do you want me to take you?” She drops her head back against my chest. “You can just keep carrying me. It’s very relaxing.
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Collection: Hard Times
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Life is full of luck, like getting dealt a good hand, or simply by being in the right place at the right time. Some people get luck handed to them, a second chance, a save. It can happen heroically, or by a simple coincidence , but there are those who don’t get luck on a shiny platter, who end up in the wrong place at the wrong time, who don’t get saved.
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Collection: Simple
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I can handle scars, especially one's on the outside.
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Collection: Stitches
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You don’t forget. You just move past it. Let go. Be who you were supposed to be instead of who they make you feel like you should be
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Collection: Letting Go
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I sometimes feel like life is just one big test to see how long we can survive.
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Collection: Long
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When he inches into me, I feel the pain, but I also feel the invisible chains around my wrists break and shatter.
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Collection: Pain
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I'll always be with you, inside and out," she reads. "Through hard times and helpless ones, through love, through doubt.
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Collection: Hard Times
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Seize the day, take hold of it, and make it whatever you want.
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Collection: Carpe Diem
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When his lips return to mine, it's not just about lust or desire - it's about making us whole.
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Collection: Lust
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That's because you loved me. You just didn't know it yet." "You didn't know it either. You were just as blind as me.
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Collection: Blind
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I'm with you because I want to be with you
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Collection: Want
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He tastes like mint and need, as he overpowers me with his tongue.
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Collection: Needs
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He knows what I'm about to say--he always does. He is my best friend, my soul mate. In a perfect world, full of roses and sunshine we'd be together, but this is full of broken.
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Collection: Sunshine
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How am I supposed to move forward in life when everything important to me is motionless?
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Collection: Moving
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No, but I've never been one for wise ideas," he says. "I believe in irrational, fleeting decisions that keep life interesting. And life needs to be interesting because we've got only one of them to live.
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Collection: Wise
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How can you want to touch me after what I did?" "How can I ever not want to touch you?
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Collection: Want
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That okay. I'll go find somewhere else to sleep." Her fingers wrap around my arm. "You don't have to go anywhere. I feel safe with you.
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Collection: Sleep
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It hurts to be around life. People don't understand how close death is, right over their shoulders, around the block, at the end of a street. It's everywhere.
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Collection: Hurt
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Liar's such a strong word. I prefer to think of it as me omitting some of the details" - Alex
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Collection: Strong
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The vertical lines that run down his forearms are the most disturbing, thick and jagged as if someone took a razor to his skin. I wish I could run my fingers along them and remove the pain and memories that are attached to them.
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Collection: Running
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I fall down and my palms split open against the gravel. Injuries on the outside are easy to endure and I get up without hesitation.
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Collection: Fall
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Always ask for the truth. Just make sure the time is right.
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Collection: Asks
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For the rest of my life?" His voice softens. "Do you want that, Ella May? Do you want me eternally, infinitely, forever, till death do us part?
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Collection: Voice
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In the existence of our lives, there are many coincidences that bring people together, but there's only one person that will own your heart forever.
- Jessica Sorensen
Collection: Heart
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Just last night everything had seemed perfect. Well, not perfect. The world was still being tortured with Fey and Lost Souls, but, between Alex and me, everything was amazing. We were connected in every single way possible and not like how we were when we had the Stars energy in us. Everything was raw, breathtaking, moving, blissful. And then poof, once again the feelings are gone. Because hes gone.
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Collection: Stars
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Just because it's broken doesn't mean it loses its importance.
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Collection: Mean
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He laughs, sucking his lip ring into his mouth. "I promise I'll go easy on you." A naughty feeling dances inside me. "What if I don't want you to go easy on me?
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Collection: Naughty
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Actually I'm taking her for a ride," I say slyly, inching my hand up the back of Ella's leg and she slaps the back of my head playfully. "I'm taking you for a ride in my car. And you think I'm the pervert.
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Collection: Thinking
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I think the people who go through more can end up stronger in the long run. They have insight in to what a lot of people don’t have and a better understanding—they can be more open-minded. - Ella's mother
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Collection: Mother
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I realize that even through the hard times I’m sure we’ll face, I’ll never be able to walk away from her. -Micha
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Collection: Hard Times
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Love you more than life itself, more than the sun and the air. You own my soul, Ella May. Micha
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Collection: Love You
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I love you, Ella May," I whisper, kissing her cheek. "And one day I want to be doing this exact same thing at our wedding.
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Collection: Love You
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I swear love is the most powerful emotion thats ever existed. It owns people, devours them, tears them open and bleeds them out from the inside, making them defenseless to everything. Hate is the same way. Hate takes your levelheadedness and even your sanity away from you.
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Collection: Powerful
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Death. It's around more than people realize. Because no one wants to talk about it or hear about it. It's too sad. Too painful. Too hard. The list of reasons is endless.
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Collection: People
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Because people fear those who are different. And fear can make people do stupid things.
- Jessica Sorensen
Collection: Stupid
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Everyone will hurt you if you let them in.
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Collection: Hurt
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It's because you aren't thinking very clearly tonight." "I know. Being Drunk is weird." "Oh my god. I love you so much. Especially when you say stuff like that." "Like what?" "Nothing. Never mind. Although I'm dying to know why your shoe is green.
- Jessica Sorensen
Collection: Love You
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One of the stall doors swings open and a fortyish-year-old woman walks out tucking her shirt into her jeans. Her heavy lined eyes land on Seth. "This is the women's restroom." She points a finger to the door. "Can't you read?" "Can't you see that everyone in this club is about twenty years younger than you?" Seth retorts, turning to the mirror. With his pinkie, he messes with bangs. "Now if you'll excuse us, we're going to have some fun.
- Jessica Sorensen
Collection: Fun
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Are you talking to her or me, because I just can't tell
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Collection: Talking
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Maybe if I try hard enough, we'll fall into each other and become one single person and we can share our pain instead of carrying it by ourselves.
- Jessica Sorensen
Collection: Pain