Rachel Renée Russell · 288 pages
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“Well, I’m really sorry to disappoint those snobby CCPs!”
“a true friend is someone who thinks you're a good egg, even if you're slightly cracked.”
“Today in English, our teacher reminded us that our Moby-Dick report is due in nine days. We were supposed to start reading the novel back in October, but I’ve been very busy with other stuff. It’s about a humongous whale and this crusty old sailor who has a purse and a really bad attitude. I’m so NOT lying! Like most people, I assumed that Moby Dick was the captain’s name or something. But it was actually the whale’s name. Like, WHO in their right mind would name a whale Moby Dick?! Our report is supposed to be about why the captain and the whale were mortal enemies. But to save time,”
“I was STILL haunted by the horrible memory of making homemade ice cream at Thanksgiving and both Brianna and Dad getting their tongues stuck on the metal ice cream thingy!”
“Years ago when he had been at college, Edward had shown him how to change sheets from under a sleeping man. Harper had spent a few weeks after that stealing the sheets from under his fellow seminary students.”
“It was strangely simple the way that one thing suddenly defined you to other people.”
“If there's one thing I was horrible at, it was small talk.”
“Battling through poverty was not my forte, and I didn't have the inkling of eluding them.”
“Sex, maybe, friendship, yes, but love, no. If she ever felt love coming toward her, she would cross the street to the other side.”
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