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Sweethearts (2008) (edit title/settings)

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As children, Jennifer Harris and Cameron Quick were both social outcasts. They were also one another's only friend. So when Cameron disappears without warning, Jennifer thinks she's lost the only person who will ever understand her. Now in high school, Jennifer has been transformed. Known... read more

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This is a story of young friendships and how we change over time. This was a book aimed at young adults all about the way life changes as time passes. It also tells a story of a tough home life and living with the effects of it.

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  • “There are things I want to remember about Cameron Quick that I can't entirely, like the pajamas he wore when he used to sleep over, and his favorite cereal, or how it felt to hold his hand as we walked home from school in third grade. I want to remember exactly how we became friends in the first place, a definite starting line that I can visit again and again. He's a story I want to know from page one.”
    Jennifer Harris
  • “I feel like I've already told you everything, in a way. I've been talking to you in my head for eight years, writing epics and sequels to epics, and sequels to the sequels”
    Cameron Quick
  • “I was hurt, then angry. Then guilty for feeling angry. Then angry for feeling guilty.”
    Jennifer Harris
  • “Life needed a fast-forward button. Because there were days you just didn't want to have to live through, not again, but they kept coming around and you were powerless to stop time or speed it up or do anything to keep from having to face it.”
    Jennifer Harris
  • “I don't want these memories to become slippery, to just disappear into the thin air of life the way most things seem to. I want them to stick—even the bad ones—so I repeat them often.”
    Jennifer Harris
  • “I'm talking about the ones who, for whatever reason, are as much a part of you as your own soul. Their place in your heart is tender; a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business. My mom was right about that. Just hearing their names pushes and pulls at you in a hundred ways, and when you try to define those hundred ways, describe them even to yourself, words are useless. If you had a lifetime to talk, there would still be things left unsaid.”
    Jennifer Harris
  • “Good-byes are the worst.”
    Cameron Quick
  • “If I could split myself in half and take part of me to CA and leave part of me in UT, I would have done it in a second. Wanted to be in both places at once, so much.”
    Cameron Quick
  • “Remember that no matter where I am or what I'm doing I've got a special place inside me that's all for you. It's been there since the day we met”
    Cameron Quick
  • “Life was mostly made up of things you couldn’t control, full of surprises, and they weren’t always good. Life wasn’t what you made it. You were what life made you.”
    Jenna Vaughn
  • “the past only had whatever power you gave it; life was what you made it and if you wanted something different from what you had, it was up to you to make it happen”
    Jenna Vaugn
  • “In the end, I decide that the mark we’ve left on each other is the color and shape of love. That’s the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete”
    Jenna
  • “I don’t just mean that they change you. A lot of people can change you — the first kid who called you a name, the first teacher who said you were smart, the first person who crowned you best friend. It’s the change you remember, the firsts and what they meant, not really the people.”
    Jenna
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  • Life was mostly made up of things you couldn’t control, full of surprises, and they weren’t always good. Life wasn’t what you made it. You were what life made you.
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  • I think about how there are certain people who come into your life, and leave a mark.
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  • the past only had whatever power you gave it; life was what you made it and if you wanted something different from what you had, it was up to you to make it happen.
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  • I’m talking about the ones who, for whatever reason, are as much a part of you as your own soul. Their place in your heart is tender; a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business. My mom was right about that. Just hearing their names pushes and pulls at you in a hundred ways, and when you try to define those hundred ways, describe them even to yourself, words are useless. If you had a lifetime to talk, there would still be things left unsaid.
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  • In the end, I decide that the mark we’ve left on each other is the color and shape of love. That’s the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.
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  • Other memories stick, no matter how much you wish they wouldn’t. They’re like a song you hate but can’t ever get completely out of your head, and this song becomes the background noise of your entire life, snippets of lyrics and lines of music floating up and then receding, a crazy kind of tide that never stops.
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  • And I don’t just mean that they change you. A lot of people can change you — the first kid who called you a name, the first teacher who said you were smart, the first person who crowned you best friend. It’s the change you remember, the firsts and what they meant, not really the people.
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  • can it really be love if we don’t talk that much, don’t see each other? Isn’t love something that happens between people who spend time together and know each other’s faults and take care of each other?
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  • the longer we’ve been apart the more he sort of recedes into the distance as a real person and in his place is a cardboard cutout that says First Boyfriend.
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  • I had them all fooled into believing I was normal and well-adjusted, a rock of sensibility who could always be counted on to have a positive attitude.
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First Sentence edit see section history

A dripping faucet.

Table of Contents edit see section history

Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27

Series & Lists edit see section history

This book is in Tayshas List (2009). (authoritative list)

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Sara Zarr (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Little
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2008
ISBN: 0316014559
Page Count: 224

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Notes for Parents edit see section history

Reading Level: Young Adults

The book is about high school age kids and has a mature theme.

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