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1 " But who bothers looking beyond the surface? Who even knows anything about Cinderella's Prince Charming - other than he's a handsome prince? "
― Mandy Hubbard , Ripple
2 " Just being near the water makes me ache for it, makes my skin tingle with the desire to run until I am chest-deep and the water wraps around my skin like a satin ribbon, making the worries, the aches, the stress unwind. Sometimes, I wonder if this is how a recovering alcoholic would feel if someone put a beer in her hand. If her body would wage war against her mind as mine does. "
3 " My happiness doesn’t rely on other people. It doesn’t depend on them needing me, wanting me, approving of me. It’s inside me, just where it was when I was little and My Little Pony reigned supreme, before life got twisted and turned upside down, beforeeveryone else moved on and left me behind. Somehow I lost the power to be happy, but I’m taking it back. Starting today. Today, I choose me. "
― Mandy Hubbard
4 " You don't have to sleep, you don't have to dream, to have nightmares. "
5 " Why do yo keep doing this?""Because I've wanted to be with you for three years, okay? That's why. "
6 " You were twisting your wet hair up into a ponytail, and then you saw us, and you smiled....""Then why didn't you-""Because you were smiling for him. And I would have had to have been an idiot to get in between that. "
7 " Shouldn't you have today off? Isn't it Sunday?""I've a half day off ever' three days. I'll be out temorra afte'noon."I snort. "A half day?"God, that's ridiculous. She doesn't even get a single full day off? What is Alex, some kind of slave driver? Jeez. "
― Mandy Hubbard , Prada & Prejudice
8 " He rests his lips against my temple. 'You need to figure out what you really want from this - from us. "
9 " Sometimes people simply believe the things because it's easier that way. But it doesn't make it the truth. "
10 " What do you mean, ruined?"From the way Emily swallows slowly, you'd think we were talking about smoking crack. "Compromised. By...by another man.""Oh!" I say, too loudly. "You mean, if the girl's not a virgin, the guy won't marry her?"She nods, her eyes wide, as if being a non-virgin is akin to being an ax-murder. "
11 " And as I watch him disappear around the corner, i can't help but wonder if this is the exact moment where i officially lost everything. "
― Mandy Hubbard , You Wish
12 " What are you doing? Taking a nap?"-Ben Mackenzie "
13 " Sometimes, people simply want to believe things because it's easier that way. But it doesn't make it the truth" -Cole "
14 " Somehow I lost the power to be happy, but I’m taking it back. "
15 " If I ever get the chance to travel back in time again, I’m finding the guy who invented corsets and we’re going to have a serious talk. "
16 " And maybe it works the other way, too. Maybe being friends with someone can make you shut yourself off to stuff that you want to be a part of.”She doesn’t speak, just shifts her weight back and forth a few times.I look up at Nicole and give her what I hope is my most sincere look, because she has to know that I’m speaking the truth. “I never meant to turn you into someone you didn’t want to be. I don’t care what you do. If you want to be a cheerleader, then awesome. You can be a nun or a backup dancer for the Jonas Brothers. I don’t care. I just don’t want you to think you can’t be my friend and the things you want to be. "
17 " The books are all leather, and the titles are old. I pause at a collection of Shakespeare. Othello. Romeo and Juliet. A Midsummer Night’s Dream. I pull Hamlet out and look at it, but then set it back down on the shelf.I pass a row of books on philosophy, and another on astrology. Up and down I go, pausing now and then, but not pulling any books out. I’m not sure what I expected to find. The Idiot’s Guide to Time Travel? "
18 " I’m only halfway through with my makeup when Angela strolls out of the bathroom in a miniskirt and backless top.“Wow,” Mindy says. I wonder if it’s the same wow I was thinking. As in, Wow, skanky much? I decide not to ask. "
19 " When the corset is deemed tight enough (as in, “Oh look, her lungs are the size of peanuts!”), the two maids mumble something about a petticoat, which I think must be the gown thing that goes over the corset. It’s softer than I’d expected, which comes as a relief. I’ll take comfort anywhere I can get it. "
20 " One, two, I’m coming for you, three, four, you better lock your door.’” -Nightmare on Elm Street -Fool me twice by Mandy Hubbard "
― Mandy Hubbard , Fool Me Twice (If Only . . ., #1)
