Love You Hate You Miss You (2009) (edit title/settings)

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• Amy: former alchoholic, is completely torn apart by julias death she has become introverted and is in so much pain she wants to kill herself the only reason she doesnt is that she feels its her fault that julia died and that she should have to live with the guilt of that because it's what she deserves
• Julia: Amy's best friend who is loud and doesn't care what people think and always there for Amy until the one fateful day.
• Caro: "corn syrup" beths best friend secretly hates beth and is pretty cool
• Beth: preppy, shallow, bitch. likes to make people around her miserable
• Mel: talkitive cut but short in amy's honors classes. Patricks best friend and he knows patrick likes her so he asks her a bunch of questions when patricks around because patrick wont ask them himself
• Patrick: Amy almost slept with Patrick once they have this really wierd drawn out thing between them. But basicly Patrick saw his father have a stroke and almost die. He never recovered from it and is now extremely quiet
• kevin: Julia's boyfriend who cheats on her constantly, but she refuses to believe it. Amy knows he's not good for Julia and wants Julia to admit that and break up with him.
• Laurie: The Shrink that Amy goes to..is annoying and has an obsessive pen clicking problem
• Anne Alice: One of the bitchy friends..hangs out with Beth
• Mrs. Harris: Add a description of this character.
• Jane: Caro's Sister

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• “I’m starting to think the reason my parents are so in love is that they both realize they are so boring no one else could stand being with them.”

• “So now I’m here, at school, hiding out in the teachers’ bathroom, and I don’t know what to do. I can’t leave, Julia. I’m just stuck here freaking out. If I close my eyes, will you come to me? You don’t have to make everything all right. You don’t have to do anything. I just want you here. Just for a second. Please.”

• “I always wanted her and Dad to feel the way I did around them. I wanted them to realize that you can be in a room with someone and yet not really be there to them.”

• “I know what people say about it, the physical and emotional intimacy of sex and whatever, butless than a minute of latex-covered flesh inside me isn’t intimate. It’s not even skin touching skin.”

  Amy

• “Whatever had brought Julia into my life was a good thing. An amazing thing.”

  Amy

• “I never knew how lucky I was until it was too late.”

  Amy

• “Silence. Not comfortable silence. Shocked silence.There’s a difference. Shocked silence hangs heavy,presses down on you.”

  Amy

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• I always wanted to be grown up. When I was little I couldn’t wait to be a teenager and go to high school. When I got there I wanted to be done with it, wanted to get out into the world, the real one, and live in it. The thing is, that world doesn’t exist. All growing up means is that you realize no one will come along to fix things. No one will come along to save you.

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• all of us standing around outside acting out scenes from a play none of us knew the lines to.

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• That he knew what it was like to wake up every day and know that this life, the one you live, is not the one you ever saw or wanted but is yours all the same.

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• but this is high school. You’re not supposed to be real. You’re supposed to be enough like everyone else to get through and out into the waiting world.

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• You don’t have to make everything all right. You don’t have to do anything. I just want you here. Just for a second. Please.

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• If there’s one thing I know, it’s how little words mean, and right then I didn’t want to hear any more of them.

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• I didn’t want those words from her, not like that, not there, but at the same time I wanted them so badly that if I could have plucked them from the air, swallowed them down, and let them swim inside me, I would have.

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• the past couple of days I’ve missed you so much it’s felt like missing you is all I am.

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• I don’t deserve to have that feeling. I still want it

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• I’d never let myself know what it was like to want someone and know they want you too. It’s a terrible feeling, makes you open yourself up, expose all the soft places you wish you didn’t have. It makes you hope.

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• Pinewood
• Millertown
• Lawrenceville

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Elizabeth Scott (Author)

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Awards edit see section history

• ALA Best Book for Young Adults (2010)

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• Books › Teens › Social Issues › Drug Use & Abuse › Fiction