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1 " Already there was black rain inside me. "
― Jacquelyn Mitchard , Cage of Stars
2 " Cats regard people as warm-blooded furniture. "
― Jacquelyn Mitchard
3 " There's a strange sensation - you recall it from childhood - about sleeping in the afternoon. You rise into a different world from the one in which you lay down. The shadows have been rearranged. There's a sensation of sad sweetness, as if something has been overlooked. I used to feel it coming out of the movies just before dinnertime, after the matinee. How, I wondered, did Broadway actors face it, this bittersweet sense of time's slipping past. "
― Jacquelyn Mitchard , The Breakdown Lane
4 " When someone you love that much leaves you behind there isn't as much of you left to die when your own time comes. "
5 " Feelings change fast when you're a teenager. "
― Jacquelyn Mitchard , What We Saw at Night (What We Saw at Night, #1)
6 " Friendship for me is made from a tapestry of personalities, each of whom shares a part of all I care about. "
7 " Nothing better for the hormones and worse for the heart than the right boy at the right time. "
8 " I do a great deal of research. I don’t want anyone to say, ‘That could not have happened.’ It may be fiction, but it has to be true. "
9 " There are no coincidences. If something happens and we don't understand the reason, that doesn't mean there is no reason. It means that the reason will later be revealed, likely not in this life. "
10 " You have that syndrome that chronically sick kids get, like overdeveloped conscience syndrome," she announced."You made that up."Juliet laughed. "I did. You have it though. You always feel like you're inconveniencing somebody.""I am always inconveniencing somebody. I'm an inconvenient person.""But you're not. We didn't ask to be born this way, Allie. The world owes you one. Not the other way around. "
11 " It was an epiphany, the kind only a horrible trauma can induce. "
12 " This infuriated my father, who said BYU was a “meat market” and that if Heavenly Father didn’t intend women to understand economics, why did He give them charge of households, and if women weren’t intended to understand philosophy, why were they the first teachers of the word, and if they weren’t intended to practice psychology, why did the Lord intend they should be mothers? "
13 " They talk about everything that happened right in front of me like I’m not there. They don’t see me. When you don’t see someone, she disappears. That’s why I’m vanishing. "
― Jacquelyn Mitchard , Now You See Her
14 " What should he say to this woman that wouldn’t entail ornamenting the tunic of lies he wore? "
― Jacquelyn Mitchard , Two If by Sea
15 " It was like a lucky pebble kept in my pocket that got so shined up from rubbing against the denim that no one could tell it had ever been an ordinary stone. "
16 " I loved the terrier quality Stuart had. He thought he was such a tough guy. "
― Jacquelyn Mitchard , The Most Wanted
17 " Maybe we don't get a long past. Maybe we just get a future. "
18 " I’ll always remember our first night together, you so flushed and shy, me knowing what I know but scared too because you are the first one I loved.We poured our loneliness into each other and filled the emptiness and dark corners of this place with joy. I think of your long straight back, your strong legs, your hair on the pillow, your dark eyes close, and say your name over and over...it is the sound of bells. "
19 " Everyone yearns for heaven, and nothing binds you to the hope of eternal life like that kind of defeat on earth. "
20 " You'll never regret eating blueberries or working up a sweat. "
