“Sometimes you have to admit that a relationship can't be fixed. That no matter how much you want to, you can't trust some people.”
― Sara Shepard, quote from Cross My Heart, Hope to Die
“But you can't make someone be something they're not.”
― Sara Shepard, quote from Cross My Heart, Hope to Die
“Last but not least, she put on a pair of black-framed reading glasses she’d found on Mr. Mercer’s bedside table. If it worked for Clark Kent, it’d work for her.”
― Sara Shepard, quote from Cross My Heart, Hope to Die
“The best you can do is be honest with the people you love and hope that they’ll care enough about you to listen.”
― Sara Shepard, quote from Cross My Heart, Hope to Die
“We’ve got beauty, we’ve got class, the other team can kiss our …”
― Sara Shepard, quote from Cross My Heart, Hope to Die
“Before Ethan went all Incredible Hulk on Thayer’s ass, the most exciting thing to happen was a spray-cheese fight some of the morons from the wrestling team got into on the back patio.”
― Sara Shepard, quote from Cross My Heart, Hope to Die
“I hope they'll understand why I did this, when it's all said and done... I'd hate to leave them. - Emma, about the Mercers”
― Sara Shepard, quote from Cross My Heart, Hope to Die
“When I first started this, I was just trying to survive. But now... I feel like I know Sutton, Ethan. I know it sounds weird, but I feel like she's here sometimes, still with me, cheering me on. I love her, and I can't let her down. She deserves justice." She shook her head again. "I'm either going to solve this thing, or I'm going to die trying."
I felt my whole being fall very still. No one had ever made a promise like that for me, risked death for me. For once I was glad that Emma couldn't hear my thoughts. I wasn't sure I could find the words to tell her how grateful I was.”
― Sara Shepard, quote from Cross My Heart, Hope to Die
“Emma sounds like an old maid. Sutton's way better." - Nisha
Emma pursed her lips, but I couldn't help it. I burst out laughing.”
― Sara Shepard, quote from Cross My Heart, Hope to Die
“Let's punk this bitch. - Nisha”
― Sara Shepard, quote from Cross My Heart, Hope to Die
“I don't have a twin. That's impossible." - Sutton
"You do have a twin." - Becky”
― Sara Shepard, quote from Cross My Heart, Hope to Die
“Emma!" I screamed.
...
"Sutton?" Emma breathed.
...
"Emma," I protested. I tried to clutch at her, knowing even as I did that it was hopeless.
But this time, something was different. My touch didn't move through her. It rested lightly on the surface of her skin, as soft as a kiss. I could feel her heartbeat, so warm, so alive.
Emma was still staring at our mother, a determined look on her face. She didn't seem to have felt anything. But I had. Even if it happened only once, I had touched my sister.”
― Sara Shepard, quote from Cross My Heart, Hope to Die
“That was Sanjay Banerjee... He just found Nisha facedown in their swimming pool. She's dead. - Mr. Mercer”
― Sara Shepard, quote from Cross My Heart, Hope to Die
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“Saltines and sardines. Staples of his diet. Add a chunk of rat cheese and a Kosher dill spear and you had yourself the four basic food groups. There simply wasn’t any finer fare.”
― Sandra Brown, quote from Envy
“Everybody has a soul." I turn to Pelly. "And that means you, too."
"I'm not so sure of that," he says. "What does it feel like?"
"Having a soul?" I look at Maxine, but she only shrugs. "I don't know," I tell Pelly. "I don't have anything to compare it to- you know, what not having a sould would feel like."
We fall into a kind of awkward silence. I don't know about the others, but I'm working on what a soul is and not coming up with a whole lot. I mean, I just always thought of it as me- what I feel like being me. But surely Pelly feels like himself, so that means he's got a soul right? But if that's not your soul, then what is?
It's weird and not something you really think about, is it?”
― Charles de Lint, quote from The Blue Girl
“If you accept any position of authority you have to know when to break or circumvent a rule. It’s the knowing when that’s important.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, quote from The Arm of the Starfish
“Kim called me a slut under her breath in H&P, and Mr. Wallace heard her and gave a lecture on the negative effects of labels, and how words like that serve to limit women’s sexual expression, and how there’s a whole history of words that basically mean slut8 and yet there are no equivalent epithets for men whatsoever, and didn’t that say something about how women are viewed in our culture? He said a more accurate term could be: “a girl who’s using sexuality in an attempt to gain approval from the opposite sex….” Or, if you look at it a different way, “a liberated, open girl who likes boys and feels comfortable expressing affection, but is misunderstood.” Blah blah blah.
I’m sure he meant well, but I wanted to call Kim a megaslut right back and not think about it anymore”
― E. Lockhart, quote from The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me, Ruby Oliver
“the trees would die before the poison was out of the soil.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, quote from H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction
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