“Bye, Dr. Green.” I opened the door, stepping out. “I said, call me Sean,” he called after me. “Bye, Dr. Sean.” “Bye, smart ass.”
― C.L. Stone, quote from Drop of Doubt
“Well, if it isn’t the future Mrs. Green.” He rocked his eyebrows up and turned back, winking at the woman in the bed. “Excuse me, won’t you? I have to ask my future wife where she might like to go on our first date.”
― C.L. Stone, quote from Drop of Doubt
“If it took me showing some warmth to get warmth in return, I'd do it.”
― C.L. Stone, quote from Drop of Doubt
“Not long enough,” he said. His green eyes smiled at me. “And no giggling. You girls and your incessant giggling. If it wasn’t so cute, I’d give you all detention for it.” “I ...” “And you’re the worst. Your giggling’s infectious and it sets everyone else off. Don’t think I haven’t noticed. First Luke breaks out, and then the rest of them start.”
― C.L. Stone, quote from Drop of Doubt
“Dr. Green beamed. “A girl after my own heart. Give her five minutes and she’s ready to go.”
― C.L. Stone, quote from Drop of Doubt
“What did I tell you about that giggle? If you start now, you’ll go all evening and get all my patients started and it’ll take me forever to calm them down.”
― C.L. Stone, quote from Drop of Doubt
“Dr. Green laughed, resting a hand on his forehead. “You should have seen those boys. They ran so fast, you’d have thought I was the devil come to collect.”
― C.L. Stone, quote from Drop of Doubt
“Peanut,” Nathan cooed. “You can’t paint it if you’re giggling and shaking.”
― C.L. Stone, quote from Drop of Doubt
“think apple pie is my favorite. Although, ask me tomorrow and I might change my mind.”
― C.L. Stone, quote from Drop of Doubt
“rolled my eyes. “Dr. Green...” “Sean.” I stopped, blinking after him. “Hm?” “My name is Sean. You can call me Sean, if you want.”
― C.L. Stone, quote from Drop of Doubt
“She said the secret to long life is to never stop moving. The moment you stop, you’re dying.” He poked me in the arm and sat back. “That’s your lesson today. Expect a test tomorrow.” I giggled a little. “Always teaching?” “I don’t have to today,” he said. “That was just a bonus.” He polished off the last of the apple pie, licking the spoon like a lollipop. “Ready?” “For what?” “You’ll see.”
― C.L. Stone, quote from Drop of Doubt
“You came back for me. You pulled a fucking knife out of my leg. What the hell did I do to get you to like me so much?” “You painted my toenails.”
― C.L. Stone, quote from Drop of Doubt
“I’d gone from being simply awkward to being completely weird. Like I’d traveled a long way, only to feel like I was stuck in the same place.”
― C.L. Stone, quote from Drop of Doubt
“He dropped my fingers and planted his palms on the counter, one on either side of me. He kept them close enough that his arms were brushing my ribs as he hovered over me. His blue eyes locked on mine, the serious gaze deepening. “I want to know if you want to. Will you go to the movies with me?”
― C.L. Stone, quote from Drop of Doubt
“Kota popped in beside North. He glanced around, a finger touching the bridge of his glasses. “Were we not invited to the ... zombie-nail-painting-cupcake party?”
― C.L. Stone, quote from Drop of Doubt
“Mr. Blackbourne seemed to understand me completely, reading my thoughts. “I tried to deny it before, too. I can’t any more. You belong with us.” He reached out, his finger catching the tear on my cheek, cleaning my skin. Mr. Blackbourne, the perfectionist. He leaned down, his voice a soft whisper in my ear. “Stay with us. Always.”
― C.L. Stone, quote from Drop of Doubt
“Do we dust for fingerprints now?” I asked.
He swiveled his head back around until he was gazing at me. “Who do we look like? The Hardy Boys?”
Silas chuckled at us without looking up from the laptop screen.
Stone, C. L. (2014-01-19). Drop of Doubt: The Ghost Bird Series: #5 (Kindle Locations 945-947). Arcato Publishing. Kindle Edition.”
― C.L. Stone, quote from Drop of Doubt
“Arf, arf, arf.” I yipped back at it. “Princess,” Victor grumbled behind me. “Please stop barking at the neighbors.”
Stone, C. L. (2014-01-19). Drop of Doubt: The Ghost Bird Series: #5 (Kindle Locations 1721-1722). Arcato Publishing. Kindle Edition.”
― C.L. Stone, quote from Drop of Doubt
“Gabriel started to open his mouth, but Luke was on top of him quickly, cupping his hand over his face. Gabriel glared at him. Luke signed to me one-handed, “See why I brought you along last time?” I signed back.
“You never taught him sign language?” Gabriel grunted, impatient. Luke grinned. He started signing.
“We should pretend we’re talking about him.”
“Stop talking about me,” Gabriel whisper-whined.
Stone, C. L. (2014-01-19). Drop of Doubt: The Ghost Bird Series: #5 (Kindle Locations 5133-5136). Arcato Publishing. Kindle Edition.”
― C.L. Stone, quote from Drop of Doubt
“Nathan’s blue eyes met mine. “Are you okay?” My heart felt frozen. His eyes sought out everything I was trying to hide. I wasn’t sure how much they heard when I was talking, but I didn’t want to appear like I was trying to hold back. Maybe I shouldn’t, but I needed time to absorb what had gone on. “He scared me, but he didn’t do anything.”
― C.L. Stone, quote from Drop of Doubt
“opened the door. He was leaning with his arm up on the frame, and his other hand on his hip. The way he was standing caught me off-guard. I’d noticed the red T-shirt and the blue jeans he wore, but with his arm up like that, the muscles in his arm and shoulders were much more noticeable. My heart tripped in my chest at how handsome he was. His blue eyes swept over me. His face brightened. “Yeah. I like those.”
― C.L. Stone, quote from Drop of Doubt
“If he could track your cell phone, wouldn’t he already know where you live?” Silas and Victor laughed. “He won’t be able to get through security,” Victor said.
“What security? We got in without anyone seeing us.”
“There’s security. Trust me.”
“Couldn’t someone just scale the wall and walk in the front door?”
“They wouldn’t make it over the wall. The only reason you got in was because you were with me.”
“What if I scale the wall?”
“Please don’t scale the wall, Princess.”
Stone, C. L. (2014-01-19). Drop of Doubt: The Ghost Bird Series: #5 (Kindle Locations 1557-1562). Arcato Publishing. Kindle Edition.”
― C.L. Stone, quote from Drop of Doubt
“His voice deepened. “I miss you, too, Peanut.” There was a pause between us. I didn’t know what else to say to him then. My mind went blank. He mumbled something away from the phone like he was talking to someone else. “I’ve got to go. Stay with the others, okay?”
― C.L. Stone, quote from Drop of Doubt
“I just wanted the cupcake,” Nathan said. “Let me have that one.” I laughed, shaking my head. Nathan took the cupcake from Luke, held the edge, and started pulling the paper away.”
― C.L. Stone, quote from Drop of Doubt
“Luke chuckled. “Did anyone mention you fall like an angel?” “Or a bag of rocks?” I asked. “That’s what it feels like. I’m good at crash landings.”
― C.L. Stone, quote from Drop of Doubt
“So how about this,” he said, focusing on the pan. “The next time we get the chance, you”
― C.L. Stone, quote from Drop of Doubt
“Peanut,” Nathan said in a quiet voice. He crossed the kitchen, snagging my hand from my mouth and drawing me toward him. “Come on, sweetie. We need to get to school.”
― C.L. Stone, quote from Drop of Doubt
“I meant run out the front door. The dude had a gun.” I threw my hands up. I couldn’t believe him. I turned around, ready to walk out the door and make him drive back. It was late. I was a mess. I wanted to be between the sheets next to Kota and Nathan and not getting shot at while stealing a digital camera.
Stone, C. L. (2014-01-19). Drop of Doubt: The Ghost Bird Series: #5 (Kindle Locations 3840-3843). Arcato Publishing. Kindle Edition.”
― C.L. Stone, quote from Drop of Doubt
“Footfalls fell heavy behind us, like someone giving chase.
“Run,” Volto said.
He didn’t have to tell me that part.
Stone, C. L. (2014-01-19). Drop of Doubt: The Ghost Bird Series: #5 (Kindle Locations 4860-4861). Arcato Publishing. Kindle Edition.”
― C.L. Stone, quote from Drop of Doubt
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“Like gamblers, baseball fans and television networks, fishermen are enamored of statistics. The adoration of statistics is a trait so deeply embedded in their nature that even those rarefied anglers the disciples of Jesus couldn't resist backing their yarns with arithmetic: when the resurrected Christ appears on the morning shore of the Sea of Galilee and directs his forlorn and skunked disciples to the famous catch of John 21, we learn that the net contained not "a boatload" of fish, nor "about a hundred and a half," nor "over a gross," but precisely "a hundred and fifty three." This is, it seems to me, one of the most remarkable statistics ever computed. Consider the circumstances: this is after the Crucifixion and the Resurrection; Jesus is standing on the beach newly risen from the dead, and it is only the third time the disciples have seen him since the nightmare of Calvary. And yet we learn that in the net there were "great fishes" numbering precisely "a hundred and fifty three." How was this digit discovered? Mustn't it have happened thus: upon hauling the net to shore, the disciples squatted down by that immense, writhing fish pile and started tossing them into a second pile, painstakingly counting "one, two, three, four, five, six, seven... " all the way up to a hundred and fifty three, while the newly risen Lord of Creation, the Sustainer of all their beings, He who died for them and for Whom they would gladly die, stood waiting, ignored, till the heap of fish was quantified. Such is the fisherman's compulsion toward rudimentary mathematics!
....Concerning those disciples huddled over the pile of fish, another possibility occurs to me: perhaps they paid the fish no heed. Perhaps they stood in a circle adoring their Lord while He, the All-Curious Son of His All-Knowing Dad, counted them all Himself!”
― David James Duncan, quote from The River Why
“I mused for a few moments on the question of which was worse, to lead a life so boring that you are easily enchanted, or a life so full of stimulus that you are easily bored.”
― Bill Bryson, quote from The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America
“He was my anchor in the hurricane, yet at the same time, the hurricane itself, so that I nearly always felt safe and afraid simultaneously. There was nothing in the world as confusing and powerful as being close to him.”
― Kristen Simmons, quote from Article 5
“You are speaking...as if the pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing... what you call remembering is the last part of the pleasure.”
― C.S. Lewis, quote from Out of the Silent Planet
“Maybe you had to leave in order to miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from Handle with Care
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