“I love that feeling, when music rumbles in your chest and soaks all the way through, like it’s a part of you.”
― Jenny B. Jones, quote from In Between
“There are mistakes, and then there are choices.”
― Jenny B. Jones, quote from In Between
“One of these days really soon, you’re going to be able to say, ‘I know what it is to be wanted, what it is to be loved. I know what home is, and I’m right where I’m supposed to be.”
― Jenny B. Jones, quote from In Between
“My own forecast? How about stressful with a hundred percent chance of freaking out.”
― Jenny B. Jones, quote from In Between
“This is a great turtle, Katie.” “James.” Millie brings the waffles to the table. “Are you blind?” Yeah, you tell him, Millie. Some people just can’t appreciate good art. Millie holds her folded napkin up proudly. “It’s a frog.” True artists (like Picasso or me) are always misunderstood.”
― Jenny B. Jones, quote from In Between
“kids who have been tossed around some, we just want to be accepted. And who is the most accepting group on a school campus? The troublemakers. It may not be right, but sometimes it’s as close to right as we can find.”
― Jenny B. Jones, quote from In Between
“I am so not into poetry. I thoroughly dislike the stuff. You read a poem, and it speaks to you. You write a stupid essay on it, and the teacher tells you your interpretation is wrong, and the author is really saying something else entirely. Oh, really? Did you talk to the author yourself? No, I didn’t think so!”
― Jenny B. Jones, quote from In Between
“hasn’t shown a single sign of wanting to stone me for my misdeeds and poor choice of friends, so what’s a little”
― Jenny B. Jones, quote from In Between
“It’s about a teenage girl. She finds out she’s a princess, goes to live in a foreign country, endures rigorous training to become royalty, wins the heart of everyone in the land, hooks up with a boy, and finds out she is to one day be queen of an entire nation.”
― Jenny B. Jones, quote from In Between
“Oh, to be the author of prison letters. It's a young girl's dream come true.”
― Jenny B. Jones, quote from In Between
“31 Chapter 32 Chapter 33 Chapter 34 Chapter 35 Chapter 36 Chapter 37 Chapter 38 Chapter 39 Chapter 40 Chapter 41 Chapter 42”
― Jenny B. Jones, quote from In Between
“Jesus loves peanut butter, and so do I” is legit.”
― Jenny B. Jones, quote from In Between
“children are. Moms to push their swings. Dads to wipe the dirt off scraped knees. Beyond the park there’s a water”
― Jenny B. Jones, quote from In Between
“Maybe kids are like parents—we don’t pick them, you know? We just gotta work with what we’ve got.”
― Jenny B. Jones, quote from In Between
“I put down my water glass and bow my”
― Jenny B. Jones, quote from In Between
“He wants you to hand the keys over and let him drive.”
― Jenny B. Jones, quote from In Between
“And their Bible? Until Nicholas Sparks puts out a version, I don’t know that I’ll ever get through that thing.”
― Jenny B. Jones, quote from In Between
“That’s all it comes down to. One choice, one wrong choice, and I sit here eaten up with guilt and a hundred other horrible feelings I can’t even begin to name.”
― Jenny B. Jones, quote from In Between
“I like to say my mom and dad ran off and joined the circus, and due to the fact that I’m allergic to spandex and heavy stage make-up, I could not join their trapeze act. Sometimes I add that I’m just hanging out at Sunny until I can perfect my fire-eating routine.”
― Jenny B. Jones, quote from In Between
“I bristle at this. My mother happens to be in prison right now. The only bright side about that is she is probably getting better food than I’ve been. My mother was one of those high-rolling entrepreneurs. She was doing so well, and it just all caved in on her. One of those dot-com businesses, you might inquire? Corporate takeover, perhaps? You know, those are all really great suggestions, but the fact is Mrs. Bobbie Ann Parker (a.k.a. my mom) found not everyone liked her products or appreciated her business skills. And when I say everyone, I mean the police. And when I say products, I mean drugs.”
― Jenny B. Jones, quote from In Between
“NANCY DREW began peeling off her garden gloves as she ran up the porch steps and into the hall to answer the ringing telephone. She picked it up and said, “Hello!” “Hi, Nancy! This is Helen.” Although Helen Corning was nearly three years older than Nancy, the two girls were close friends. “Are you tied up on a case?” Helen asked. “No. What’s up? A mystery?” “Yes—a haunted house.”
― quote from The Hidden Staircase
“They'd poisoned me, dammit. Probably to trade my dead body to the barbarians for Wulfgar's safe return. Or maybe just for the fun of it.”
― Vivian Vande Velde, quote from Heir Apparent
“These are things made for thinking on slowly, ... Things to be thought on at length, while the hands do their work and the coffee sits in a solid china mug nearby.
Do the Dead Sing”
― Stephen King, quote from Skeleton Crew
“Then I watched his eyebrows go up. Way up.”
― Meg Cabot, quote from All-American Girl
“It must be tempered with discipline. Ferocity is useless unless employed in the proper place . . .”
― Jim Butcher, quote from Cursor's Fury
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