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- Yesterday when we went over the plan again and again, I never thought about Grandad showing up. Because I'm an idiot, basically--an idiot with poor…
- I heard you've been having some problems with your girlfriend." Headmistress Northcutt says. "No," I say. "Not at all." Audrey broke up with me after…
- I have no memory of climbing the stairs up to the roof. I don't even know how to get where I am, which is a…
- Greg stands up, wiping his mouth. "I saw your mother's trial in the paper, Sharpe. I know you're just like her." "If I was, I…
- I’ve stripped my life down,” he told me. “I don’t need much. I have all the company I want to keep right in here.” He…
- I need to talk to you. I had a weird dream." "Let me guess. You got tied up by lady ninjas. With big hooters." "Uh,…
- She suddenly understood why she had let him kiss her in the diner, why she had wanted him at all. She wanted to control him.…
- On the way out to the car, Philip turns to me. “How could you be so stupid? I shrug, stung in spite of myself. “I…
- It’s just that you go so crazy being alone like that. Sometimes he’d forget my water or food and I’d cry and cry and cry.”…
- Oh- and grab the plastic bag over by my suitcase." I slug down the last of the coffee and get up. The bag contains panty…
- I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing…
- One fine day, in the middle of the night, two dead boys got up to fight. Back to back they faced each other. They pulled…
- It’s hard to come up with a scheme to thwart some other scheme you don’t even know about.
- She sat in the dew-damp grass and ripped up clumps of it, tossing them in the air and feeling vaguely guilty about it. Some gnome…
- She’s an old lady,” Barron says. “And she’s been locked up for years. Let her have some fun. She needs to blow off steam. Seduce…
- But now I wonder--what if everyone is pretty much the same and it's just a thousand small choices that add up to the person you…
- She sits up. I can’t read her expression, but her cheeks look a little pink. “I didn’t think you were going to be here.” “I…
- The problem with cell phones is that you can’t slam them down into a cradle when you hang up. Your only option is to throw…
- At the end of a criminal’s life, it’s always the small mistake, the coincidence, the lark. The time we got too comfortable, the time we…
- It's too early for there to be any coffee. I stare dully at the empty pot in the common room, while Sam picks up a…
- I thought I was getting better at this. I thought I was starting to make peace with being in love with a girl who despises…
- You set me up," I say. "One big con. You can't blame me because I turned out not to be gullible enough. You can't blame…
- I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like DYING.
- If they were real, then maybe the world was big enough to have magic in it. And if there was magic — even bad magic,…
- He wondered whether growing up was learning that most stories turned out to be lies.
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- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
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