“Money doesn't buy taste, personality, or common decency.”
“I’m not sure I want to go to prom. I’m not sure I want to share you with anyone.”
“I was stuck in a life I didn't remember, squeezed into the shell of this girl - this Samantha Joe Franco - and the more I learned about her, the more I was starting to hate her.”
“I can’t believe it took me this long to be here with you.”
“I can’t believe you’re actually here. That you are with me.”
“Screw practice. Our relationship is more important than a damn practice.”
“Things aren’t perfect. They are far, far from it,but they are getting there, and I wasn’t looking back. Not when there were so many good things in the future.”
“I didn't recognize the name on the street sign. Nothing about the rural road looked familiar or friendly. Tall, imposing trees and overgrown weeds choked the front of the dilapidated home. Windows were boarded up. There was a gaping hole where the front door had been. I shivered, wanting to be far away from here… wherever here was.”
“Don’t take this the wrong way, but I’m not proud of it. Even though you didn’t have that damn necklace on, as far as I knew, you were still with Del. And I’m not big on making out with another guy’s girlfriend.”
“Grace? Are you tipsy? (Selena)
Maybe just comfortably toasty. Pop tart toasty. (Grace)”
“No," he said calmly, filled with purpose. he took her arms lightly in his hands and shook her. "I am not giving you up."
Emily looked at him, and for just a moment he could read her thoughts. Melanie use to say they were like twins, with their own secret, silent language. in that instant, Chris felt her fear and her resignation, and the knotty pain of coming up against a brick wall again and again. She glanced away, and he could breathe again. "The thing is, Chris" Emily said, "it's not your choice.”
“You ever think about this? Every year you live, you pass the anniversary of your death. Now you don't know what day it is, of course.”
“But no one walks out of his family without reprisals: a family is too disciplined an army to offer compassion to its deserters.”
“Some might think you suicidal."
"Well, 'some' can stick it up their ass.”
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