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Along for the Ride
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"Along for the Ride" Quotes

A teenager navigates family drama and new love while working through her own issues during a summer at the beach.

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It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered - so many locks not enough keys.

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lostsearching

It's all in the view. 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 never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count.

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perspectivetime

Sometimes people jump to the wrong conclusions because it’s easier to think they know everything than to admit they know nothing.

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judgmentignorance

Life can be long or short, it all depends on how you choose to live it.

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lifechoices

The thing is, you can't always have the best of everything. Because for a life to be real, you need it all: good and bad, beach and concrete, the familiar and the unknown.

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lifebalance

It had always been the two of us, together. But now, as I stood there, I realized that was wrong. It had never been just the two of us. We’d always had my mother, and that had been enough. But now we didn’t.

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familyloss

Sometimes you think you know things, know things very deeply, only to realize you don’t know a damn thing.

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ignorancerealization

There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.

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self-awareness

The truth is, it's all about how you frame it. I mean, you could be the most amazing, beautiful person in the world, but if you're unhappy, that's all people will see.

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perspectivehappiness

Sometimes that’s the only way to get through a week, a day, or even an hour. Just knowing it will all be on your own terms.

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independence