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Justina Chen (born 1968 in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania) is a Taiwanese-American fiction writer and executive communications consultant. She is best known for her young-adult fiction, especially North of Beautiful (2009), A Blind Spot for Boys (2014), Girl Overboard (2008), and Nothing but the Truth and a Few White Lies (2006).

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He knew me in all the ways that truly mattered: the shape of my fears, the contours of my dreams.

Dream, Dreams, Fears, Relationship, Shapes, Ways

I just told Max flatly, "I had laser surgery last week to lighten my birthmark," as if it was no big deal. Oh yeah?" he said. Unexpectedly, Max swiveled around, yanked his pants down. The last thing I thought I had wanted to see tonight was Merc walking out the door. I was wrong. It was this stranger's rear end. "Please don't tell me this is one of those stripping telegrams?

Doors, Down, Lasers, Lasts, Rear, Unexpectedly

You don't need a geochache for this one. " "You don't, huh?" "Nope. . here I am. Here I am.

Geochache, Here I Am, Huh, Needs, Nope

You would be surprised what two hours of daily exercise and five hundred stomach crunches can do for you.

Daily, Exercise, Hours, Surprised, Two, Would Be

If Jacob was right and clothes were costumes and makeup a mask, then our attitudes and habits must be our shields.

Attitude, Attitudes, Clothes, Habits, Makeup, Right

Flawed, we're truly interesting, truly memorable, and yes, truly beautiful.

Beautiful, Flawed, Interesting, Memorable

Silence, too, can be torture.

Silence, Torture

Forgiving others is easier when I remember that I'm human and stupid, too.

Easier, Forgiving, Remember, Stupid

That's when it struck me: how gorgeous we all were, even with cellulite (saw a lot of that) and stretch marks, scars and tattoos. Let me just say this, not single body was perfect, not even the fittest of women there.

Body, Cellulite, Perfect, Say, Stretch, Tattoo

You raze the old to raise the new.

Happy New Year Inspirational, New Beginnings, Old, Raise, Raises, Raze

From her dubious tone alone, I could see how Karin had no idea how terrifying words spoken quietly could be. How words chosen precisely to wreak maximum damage ticked like a bomb in your head, but exploded in your heart hours later, leaving you scarred and changed.

Dubious, Exploded, Heart, Ideas, Leaving, Scarred

My confidence was of the hothouse variety, carefully cultivated under highly regulated conditions. One wrong look, one mean comment, and my facade would wither.

Facade, Hothouse, Look, Looks, Mean, Under

Teachers wondered why I didn't speak up more in class. Why would I when I knew how precarious words could be, how betraying they were, how vulnerable they made you?

Betraying, Class, Precarious, Speak, Teacher, Vulnerable

Let the glossy spreads have their heart-stopping, head-turning kind of beauty. Give me the heart-filling beauty instead. Jolie laide, that's what I would choose. Flawed, we're truly interesting, truly memorable, and yes, truly beautiful.

Beautiful, Heart, Instead, Let, Memorable, Spreads

What was so miraculous about a relationship that was based more on my gratitude than on mutual self respect?

Based, Gratitude, Mutual, Self

Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It lives in what we do for ourselves and for others.

Actions, Attitude, Faces, Lives, Our Actions, Real

That's exactly why nature always trumps gardens. Gardens are just reality pruned of chaos. What doesn't work you rip out.

Garden, Gardens, Nature, Reality, Rip

What swells inside me is a love so boundless, I am the sunrise and sunset. I am Liberty Bell in the Cascades. I am Beihai Lake. I am every beautiful, truly beautiful, thing I've ever seen, captured in my personal Geographia, the atlas of myself.

Beautiful, Captured, Lakes, Personal, Seen, Sunset

Come on, don't you ever stop and smell the coffee?

Coffee, Come, North Of Beautiful, Smell

Like world describers before me, those mapmakers in the seventeenth centure, I had laid down my first faintly drawn border. With that one tentative mark, my world expanded by a few freeing degrees.

Borders, Degrees, Describers, Expanded, Mark, World

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