One day I know I'll be moving on, but I fear you'll always be right there holding a piece of my heart that'll never belong to me. And I'll live my life, find reasons to smile so everyone will always think that you didn't shake me and totally break me. They'll never know I'll never be free.

—Abbi Glines in Sometimes It Lasts

About Abbi Glines

Abbi Glines (Abigail Glines) is an American New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling novelist. Her new-adult fiction titled Fallen Too Far was self-published on eBook and paperback in 2012.

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I have found that when you love someone, you can forgive just about anything. Eventually.

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Some days I imagined getting on a bus and leaving this town behind. The memories weren't good. At least most of them weren't.

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I think they'd be proud of the strong person you've become. I think they'd be proud that although you've been through more grief and loss than one person deserves, you're still finding reasons to smile.

—Abbi Glines in Sometimes It Lasts

He looked like a man, but he was just a boy with so much potential.

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For six months I had lived with the pain of not being enough.

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One day I know I'll be moving on, but I fear you'll always be right there holding a piece of my heart that'll never belong to me. And I'll live my life, find reasons to smile so everyone will always think that you didn't shake me and totally break me. They'll never know I'll never be free.