The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen

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Sixteen-year-old Macy Queen is looking forward to a long, boring summer. Her boyfriend is going away. She’s stuck with a dull-asdishwater job at the library. And she’ll spend all of her free time studying for the SATs or grieving silently with her mother over her father’s recent unexpected... read more

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Cast of Characters

Macy Queen: main protagonist
Deborah Queen: Macy's mother
Jason Talbot: Macy's boyfriend
Caroline Queen: Macy's sister
Delia: a pregnant mother who inherited Wish Catering after her sister died.
Kristy Palmetto: a server at Wish Catering
Monica Palmetto: Kristy's sister, a server at Wish Catering
Wes Baker: Delia's older nephew, bartender at Wish Catering
Bert Baker: Wes' younger brother

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Memorable Quotes

“"Then," Kristy continued, nodding at her, "life was very short, literally. But now that I'm better, it seems so long I have to squint to see even the edges of it. It's all in the view, Macy. That's what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You can never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count."”
Kristy
“"Okay", I said, "what's your biggest fear?" "Clowns," he said. "Clowns." "Yup." I just looked at him. "What?" he said, glancing over at me. "That is not a real answer," I told him. "Says who?" "Says me. I meant a real fear, like of failure, of death, of regret. Like that. Something that keeps you awake nights, questioning your very existence." He thought for a second. "Clowns."”
Macy and Wes playing Truth