“Some day you’ll call me the one that got away.” -Jessie from Going Under.”
― Georgia Cates, quote from Going Under
“If this is the real you, whoever told you to be yourself couldn’t have given you worse advice.” - Claire from Going Under.”
― Georgia Cates, quote from Going Under
“You might score some touchdowns on the football field, but you can forget about getting into Claire’s end zone”. -Payton from Going Under”
― Georgia Cates, quote from Going Under
“Do you suffer from restless lip syndrome because they make medication for that?” -Jessie from Going Under.”
― Georgia Cates, quote from Going Under
“When you look back on this moment months from now, don't forget the one word I'm about to say to you, Claire Deveraux. Foreplay.”
― Georgia Cates, quote from Going Under
“I hope he got plenty of rest last night because his legs are gonna be real tired after he runs through your mind all day.”
― Georgia Cates, quote from Going Under
“Am I crazy for thinking I could have a chance with her?”
― Georgia Cates, quote from Going Under
“I hope you know CPR because you are going to take Jessie's breath away.”
― Georgia Cates, quote from Going Under
“I feel myself...going under. I'm drowning in you because I am so hopelessly in love with you. You're the only one I want.”
― Georgia Cates, quote from Going Under
“No and Yes. No, it doesn't change what I think about you, and yes, it validated you're still an asshole.”
― Georgia Cates, quote from Going Under
“Hey, there's a song about me called 'Jessie's Girl.' I still hear it on the radio occasionally."
"Yeah, everybody wishes they had Jessie's girl," he laughed.”
― Georgia Cates, quote from Going Under
“but Betty…the boy wants to be your Fred Flintstone so he can make your Bedrock. Peyton from Going Under”
― Georgia Cates, quote from Going Under
“He's such a creep. He gave me that up-and-down look with those weird grunting and moaning sounds he makes. I feel like I need a morning-after pill and strong antibiotics.”
― Georgia Cates, quote from Going Under
“...yelling doesn't make a thing any more possible.”
― Angie Sage, quote from Queste
“Just because you change girlfriends before your gum loses flavor doesn't mean my relationship is doomed to fail.”
― Melissa Landers, quote from Invaded
“I hide, I protect, I pretend.”
― Kelsey Sutton, quote from Some Quiet Place
“He coughs. Not a good sound. Too deep, too full of coffins.
Why is mankind so fucking cruel?
Why?”
― Sally Gardner, quote from Maggot Moon
“A common lament of the World War II generation is the absence today of personal responsibility. Broderick remembers listening to an NPR broadcast and hearing an account of how two boys found a loaded gun in one of their homes. The visiting boy accidentally shot his friend. The victim’s father was on the radio, talking about suing the gun manufacturer. That got to Tom Broderick. “So,” he said, “here’s this man talking about suing and he’s not accepting responsibility for having a loaded gun in the house.” Tom knows something about personal responsibility. He’s been forced to live as a blind man for more than fifty years, and when asked about the moment when the lights were literally shot out of his eyes, he says only, “It was my fault for getting too high in the foxhole. That happens sometimes.”
― Tom Brokaw, quote from The Greatest Generation
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