The One That I Want (2010) (edit title/settings)

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• Tilly Farmer: High school guidance counselor at her alma mater; former cheerleader; married her high school sweetheart; organizes everything, cleans up everybody else's messes & tries to keep things from changing.
• Darcy: Tilly's sister
• Ilia: Add a description of this character.
• Tyler Farmer: Tillie's husband; was star shortstop, team captain & eventually MVP of the championship game in his senior year of high school; went to University of Washington on a baseball schorlarship;
• Darcy Everett: Tully & Luanne's baby sister ; very angry; Tillly considers her very immature & irresponsible; gifted pianist & Singer; very sentimental about her dead mother; has serious issueswith her father; 9 years younger than Tully; 8 years old when her mother died.
• Ashley Simmons: Third part of a best friend triangle with Tilly & Sussanna until 7th grade; Tilly meets her again as a fortune teller at the fair.
• Austin: Susanna's husband; Tyler's best friend;
• C. J. (Claudette Johnson): Her father has run an Italian restaurant in Westlake since she was a baby.
• Valerie Simmons: Ashley's mother; dying of coronary heart disease.
• Dante Smiley: Paralegal at an attorney's office in the strip mall; sometimes moonlights as a drummer; had 2 year relationship with Darcy in high school;
• Mr. Everett: Owns an appliance sale store; his wife, Margaret, died of ovarian cancer two months after diagnosis; spiraled down into alcoholism for long period after his wife's death;
• Eli Matthews: Replacement art teacher at Westlake High; free-lance photographer; helps Tilly re-awaken her photography talent.
• Susie
• Susanna: Tilly's best friend since elementary school; teaches 9th & 10th grade English; starred in "Grease" her senior year in high school;
• Luanne: Middle sister of Tilly & Darcy; delivery room nurse;
• Darcv
• Anderson
• Wally
• Oliver
• Adie
• Jamie
• Charlie
• Ashley
• Darr
• Westlake
• Ilic
• Jill
• Illy
• Valerie
• Darev

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• “Because tomorrow, they will wake up, we will wake up, and we will face another day, another mountain, another moment in the after. And if we are wise, which I hope that I am now, we will seize it so mightily, clench it so close, that we will never risk that it can break free, slip through our open fingers without warning.”

• “There is the before. And then there is the after. Happiness is what you choose, what you follow, not what follows you. These are the things I now know, these are the things I will carry with me as I go.”

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• There is the before. And then there is the after. Happiness is what you choose, what you follow, not what follows you.

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• Because guilt, I realize, is nothing more than a prison to keep us trapped from doing what we really want.

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• life is limitless, that fear is conquerable, that if you stay concealed in the shadows, you’ll never be seen. That spending the better part of your days trying to fix people might be admirable; no, in fact, it is admirable, but only when you’re not doing so to avoid fixing yourself.

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• I wonder if maybe being too satisfied with your life and becoming numb to it aren’t somehow intertwined. Like there isn’t something just as dangerous about playing it safe.

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• Mostly, I’d tell her that it isn’t too late. That the years are long and the road is winding and that dreams float out there to be captured, but only if you’re brave enough to reach up and grasp them.

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• Because there are burdens that we bear together, and then there are burdens that we have to bear alone, but even those, the ones that we must forge ourselves, are easier to shoulder when we can sense the firm assuredness of our sister, of our friends, standing right beside us, holding us up in case we falter.

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• realize that lessons are meant to be learned, honored even, or else you can spend your life running so far from them that you erect a false existence around the very thing you should be embracing.

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• I might have felt broken, but at the end of it all, I didn’t allow myself to break.

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• “Don’t you understand that if nothing changes, nothing will ever go astray!”

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• A lot of them are assholes. A lot of them aren’t. It doesn’t really matter. You don’t define yourself by it.”

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• Seattle
• Paris
• Mexico
• Kenya
• Westlake, Washington
• Austin

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Allison Winn Scotch (Author)

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• Dewey: 813.6

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• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary