“I understand I can’t have you. But I want to know you’re in the world with me.”
― Jennifer Echols, quote from Forget You
“What happened was, I told you I loved you.”
― Jennifer Echols, quote from Forget You
“I knew exactly what you'd done. I know that feelings. You have to do something. You have to change something radically, because you can't stay like you are for another second, or you're going to explode.”
― Jennifer Echols, quote from Forget You
“I'm dating Brandon," I told his bowed head.
"Really?" he asked without looking up.
"Yes!"
"I'll print you a wallet card to whip out every time you need to say that, so you can save your voice."
"Could you laminate it?”
― Jennifer Echols, quote from Forget You
“And you told me the biggest lie of all. You told me you loved me,” It was my turn to wince like he’d slapped me. “I don’t remember saying that” “You would if it had been true. You would feel something”
― Jennifer Echols, quote from Forget You
“No, I didn't remember the deer. Is the deer okay?'
'Fuck the deer. Hush now.”
― Jennifer Echols, quote from Forget You
“But you are right, being stupid is not illegal. Otherwise half this town would be behind bars.”
― Jennifer Echols, quote from Forget You
“Every strong swimmer has a story about nearly drowning.”
― Jennifer Echols, quote from Forget You
“Or that I couldn’t stand to watch anything bad happen to you, because it was like it was happening to me too.Is that love?”His hand clasped my hand again and squeezed.
I swallowed. “It could be.”
― Jennifer Echols, quote from Forget You
“You’re an escapee from the loony bin,” I said. “You’re the butt of every joke ever told. You might as well be the chicken that crossed the road.”
― Jennifer Echols, quote from Forget You
“Brandon is your boyfriend, right. You keep saying ‘Brandon is my boyfriend,’” he moved his fingers in quote marks, “and it makes as much sense as ‘I am balancing the planet Pluto on my big toe’ or ‘Kumquats make the best nuclear physicists.”
― Jennifer Echols, quote from Forget You
“There was no way he could ever be my hero when his first words to me were a command to keep things quiet.”
― Jennifer Echols, quote from Forget You
“I don’t think my memory of that night is ever coming back.”
“Do you want me to hit you on the head with a coconut? It works on Gilligan’s Island.”
― Jennifer Echols, quote from Forget You
“Did you alltake your pants off? The swim team really knows how to throw a party.”
― Jennifer Echols, quote from Forget You
“Just be prepared," she said. "When you do come back to live with me, you are SO GROUNDED for calling me the chicken that crossed the road.”
― Jennifer Echols, quote from Forget You
“Or that I couldn't stand to watch anything bad happen to you, because it was like it was happening to me too. Is that love?”
― Jennifer Echols, quote from Forget You
“My brother is a very bad policeman. So . . . you’re coming to school, right?” Doug
“Nnnnnnno.” Zoey
“Come so you can be around people,” Doug coaxed. “I don’t think you should be alone today.”
“I think I definitely should.” Zoey
“Come so I won’t worry about you.” Doug ;]”
― Jennifer Echols, quote from Forget You
“His fingers, frozen in midfidget on his good knee, said
PEOPLE AREN'T SUPPOSED TO ASK ME THAT.
Either that or
I HAVE JUST BEEN SHOT THROUGH THE PAPER SCREEN.
He wasn't bleeding.”
― Jennifer Echols, quote from Forget You
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“In the deceitfulness of our hearts, we sometimes play with temptation by entertaining the thought that we can always confess and later ask forgiveness. Such thinking is exceedingly dangerous. God’s judgement is without partiality. He never overlooks our sin. He never decides not to bother, since the sin is only a small one. No, God hates sin intensely whenever and wherever He finds it.”
― Jerry Bridges, quote from The Pursuit of Holiness
“Eat my heart
Chew it hard
Swallow my soul, too”
― Robert Cormier, quote from Tenderness
“I don't believe in fate. I don't believe in cushioning your insecurities with a system of belief that tells you 'Don't worry. This may be your life but you're not in control. There is something or someone looking out for you -- it's already organised.' It's all chance and choice, which is far more frightening.”
― Maggie O'Farrell, quote from After You'd Gone
“None of them could help her. She had lost all of them. They would not find out about this; she would not put it into a letter. And because of this she understood that they would never know her now. Maybe, she thought, they had never known her, any of them, because if they had, then they would have had to realize what this would be like for her.”
― Colm Tóibín, quote from Brooklyn
“I lean down so that my face is right in front of hers and whisper, ‘He doesn’t love you. I love you.”
― Kaui Hart Hemmings, quote from The Descendants
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