“Your lot in life? A lot is something you draw, like straws. It's chance. You didn't get this life by chance. You chose it on purpose. If you're dissatisfied from it, you can change it.”
― Jennifer Echols, quote from Going Too Far
“And the rest is happily ever After.”
― Jennifer Echols, quote from Going Too Far
“Waiter, this is not the policeman I ordered. I wanted one with a lot less sauce.”
― Jennifer Echols, quote from Going Too Far
“But you can’t live your life worried about dying all the time. If you do, you’re dead already.”
― Jennifer Echols, quote from Going Too Far
“My knee radiated heat. As I watched him pull himself from the car and walk casually across the brightly lit parking lot, I thought dumb things. I will never wash my knee again. I will never wash these jeans again. I will cut the knee out of these jeans and sew a pillow to sleep on every night, just to have a molecule of him in my bed with me.”
― Jennifer Echols, quote from Going Too Far
“You can't tell a seventeen-year-old anything. They think they're immortal. They don't listen. Seventeen-year-olds have to see it for themselves.”
― Jennifer Echols, quote from Going Too Far
“Consider yourself hugged. Virtual hug."
I felt the virtual hug, warm and snug.”
― Jennifer Echols, quote from Going Too Far
“Officer After leaned across the seat toward me - which, under the circumstances, made me start back. 'I'm sorry I'm not allowed to beat the shit out of him for you.”
― Jennifer Echols, quote from Going Too Far
“Yeah, I understood that last night at the wreck. Nothing says I love you like a dead body.”
― Jennifer Echols, quote from Going Too Far
“I guess we both understood that our relationship was built entirely on witty repartee, and neither of us thought we could be witty on four hours of shut-eye.”
― Jennifer Echols, quote from Going Too Far
“All right," I said. "But from now on, every time you show me a dead body, I'm having sex with Eric.”
― Jennifer Echols, quote from Going Too Far
“I swear, Tiff, if my ass made good grades, you'd want to date my ass.”
― Jennifer Echols, quote from Going Too Far
“What have we done to each other?”
― Jennifer Echols, quote from Going Too Far
“That's stupid. I said no because you don't love me.
- John”
― Jennifer Echols, quote from Going Too Far
“I should have run away from you and started college and gone on without you. But I would always have regretted it if I didn't give this a shot.
- Tiffany”
― Jennifer Echols, quote from Going Too Far
“His dark eyes challenged me. They were weapons that could hurt me. Here was the worst thing about them: I could tell that if Johnafter loved you, his dark eyes would be beautiful and friendly and warm. So every time he cut me down with a look that was cold and unfriendly and ugly, it was a double insult, a reminder of what I could never have. I found myself avoiding his dark eyes when I could.”
― Jennifer Echols, quote from Going Too Far
“Why are you pretending to write, when I already know you're just doing that to intimidate me?”
― Jennifer Echols, quote from Going Too Far
“No. I just don't want to be a detective. They figure out what happened after the fact, when it's too late. I want to prevent it from happening.”
― Jennifer Echols, quote from Going Too Far
“That is the way convince people. Or change them and prevent them from hurting whether themselves and others. Art is the most effective form of communication.
You can use it to lift the human spirit and make them understand that there is more to life than their next drug use.”
― Jennifer Echols, quote from Going Too Far
“He looked over at me. “Indigo,” he said. “Cyan”. He glanced at the road in front of him, glanced at me. He reached over and ran his fingers down one of the darkest strands in the back, where I’d used a little purple. “Violet.”
― Jennifer Echols, quote from Going Too Far
“I gave my dad a thumbs-up.
He stared at me. My mom turned to him in the car, asking him, What? What is it? He kept staring at me. My brown hair was an even bigger shock for him than I'd expected.
I smiled and waved at him and mouthed, "Welcome home."
He put his hand to his eyes. He knew I was finally cured.”
― Jennifer Echols, quote from Going Too Far
“Boys are two years behind girls in maturity level.”
― Jennifer Echols, quote from Going Too Far
“Art is the most effective form of communication.”
― Jennifer Echols, quote from Going Too Far
“Nothing says "I love you" like a dead body”
― Jennifer Echols, quote from Going Too Far
“What do you write in those forms?” I asked.
“Nothing. I just do this to look threatening.”
― Jennifer Echols, quote from Going Too Far
“No matter how careful you are"..."there's always going to be a mess, and you're going to have to clean it up afterward.”
― Jennifer Echols, quote from Going Too Far
“Tiffany, this is Officer After, who arrested you. Officer After, this is Tiffany Hart, who doesn't remember you.”
― Jennifer Echols, quote from Going Too Far
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“Just like that, those butterflies I'd first felt at twelve made a reappearance.”
― Morgan Matson, quote from Second Chance Summer
“You’ll get over being mad at me.”
“Not likely.”
Step, step, step—
“I promise not to gloat about it when you do.”
“I won’t.”
Step, step, step—
“Because I want to be with you so badly I don’t care if you’re screaming at me the whole time as long as I’m with you.”
I stop dead in my tracks.”
― Tera Lynn Childs, quote from Oh. My. Gods.
“My grandma let the dog out of the coal shed. She said my mother was cruel to lock it up. The dog was sick on the kitchen floor. My grandma locked it up again.”
― Sue Townsend, quote from The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4
“Class, I'd like us all to give a warm mayflower elementary welcome to your new friend and classmate Jing Jang!"
"Jin Wang"
"Jin wang!"
"He and his family recently moved to our neighborhood all the way from China!"
"San Francisco."
"San Francisco!"
"Yes, Timmy."
"My momma says Chinese people eat dogs."
"Now be nice, Timmy!" -km sure Jin doesn't do that! In fact, Jin's family probably stopped that sort of thing as soon as they came to the united states!"
The only other asian in my class was Suzy Nakamura.
When the class finally figured out that we weren't related, rumors began to circulate that suzy and I were arranged to be married on her thirteenth birthday.
We avoided each other as much as possible.
(30-31)”
― Gene Luen Yang, quote from American Born Chinese
“Jefferson could write, “I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.”
― Stephen E. Ambrose, quote from Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier
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