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81 " Now, now.” She sits across from me with her toast and offers me a slice, but I push it back toward her. “Give it time. Do you remember what I told you in the hospital?” I shake my head. “Things’ll get worse before they get better. Well, they surely did get worse, and now there’s nowhere to go but up.” She takes a bite and I keep spinning the quarter until she swallows. “You should bring that boy of yours by sometime for dinner, Cooper. It’s about time we met him. "
― Karen M. McManus , One of Us Is Lying (One of Us is Lying, #1)
82 " Silence falls as we get lost in our own regrets. "
― Karen M. McManus , You'll Be the Death of Me
83 " We all make mistakes, right? And almost never see the fallout coming. "
84 " I thought she was your mother. "
― Karen M. McManus , Two Can Keep a Secret
85 " Leave the past where it is "
― Karen M. McManus , The Cousins
86 " Later.” Kris hesitates a fraction of a second, then leans forward and pulls me roughly toward him, pressing his lips against mine. I close my eyes and the world around me fades, like it always does, when I slide my hands into his hair and kiss him back. "
87 " If you could be anyhwere in five years, doing anything at all, what would you pick? "
― Karen M. McManus , One of Us Is Next (One of Us Is Lying, #2)
88 " Population 4,935.’ Never changed the entire eighteen years I lived there,” she’d say with a smirk. “Apparently if you’re going to bring someone in, you have to take someone out first. "
89 " The loneliness of that settles over my shoulders like a heavy blanket. "
90 " I’m the omniscient narrator "
91 " Do you mean proactive like when you fucked my swim coach and knocked her up? Is that the kind of proactive I should be shooting for? "
92 " She hands me her phone and points to a post on my timeline from Yale University: To err is human @BronwynRojas. We look forward to receiving your application. "
93 " I'm just wondering if you're familiar with this thing called outside? It has sun and fresh air, or so I've heard.""Pure rumor and speculation," I say. "Doesn't exist. "
94 " You gotta shoot your shot when it comes...Who knows if you'll get another chance? "
95 " People get very angry when police officers are accused of a crime, but that anger is often displaced toward the accuser or the victim. The conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience is well documented. "
96 " You find out who your real friends are when stuff like this happens. "
97 " You're not perfect. So what? Welcome to the real world. "
98 " like your horrible taste in movies and the way you never sugarcoat anything and the fact that you have an actual lizard. I’d be proud to be your girlfriend, even in a nonofficial capacity while we’re, you know, being investigated for murder. Plus, I can’t go more than a few minutes without wanting to kiss you, so—there’s that. "
99 " Come on, just for an hour till we finish the movie. You can meet my lizard.It takes a few seconds of silence for me to realize how that might be interpreted.That's not a line. I have an actual lizard. A bearded dragon named Stan. "
100 " Because God, it's beautiful when that boy smiles. "