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1 " It's one thing to think you're worthless, and quite another for somebody else to tell you that you are. "
― Jennifer Echols , Dirty Little Secret
2 " I love you.”I stared stupidly at him. Was he joking again, reciting another line from my story? I didn’t remember writing this.He leaned in and kissed me. I didn’t respond for a few seconds. My mind lagged behind what my body was feeling.“Say it,” he whispered against my lips. “I know this is hard for you. Tell me.”“I love you.” Hearing my own words, I gasped at the rush of emotion.He put his hands on either side of my jaw and took my mouth with his. "
― Jennifer Echols , Love Story
3 " Why are you pretending to write, when I already know you're just doing that to intimidate me? "
― Jennifer Echols , Going Too Far
4 " You’ve gone far away to a place with no horses and very little grass, and you’re studying how to write a story with a happy ending. If you can write that ending for yourself, maybe you can come back. "
5 " I turned to the clarinets. They were a resourceful lot. "
― Jennifer Echols , Major Crush
6 " I continued to move my fingers across his skin exactly as I had before, but I needed to make a decision. I had reached for him, but I could back out of it by trailing my fingers down his arm and settling my hand in his, like I wanted us to be friends.I didn't want us to be friends.Ever so slowly, I slid my hand up his sleeve, across his shoulder, and up his neck to cradle his jaw, prickly with stubble. "
7 " You should never start something when you haven't finished the last thing. People feel used that way. "
8 " Yes, I was good at reading people. I studied them so I could put them in my novels. "
9 " And you’re beautiful. You’d have to work pretty hard to mess that up. "
― Jennifer Echols , Endless Summer (The Boys Next Door, #1-2)
10 " You're a beautiful girl If you show the slightest interest in Alec, he'll want to go out with you. I know I would. "
― Jennifer Echols , Such a Rush
11 " Deana Carter sings about it. Lady Antebellum sings about it. Eric Church. Gosh, not just country artists. Katy Perry. Everybody has a song about it because everybody's been through it. You find that person at eighteen and you lose yourself. And the tragedy is, it's the person who's completely opposed to everything you've ever wanted. You bond with that person, and that person breaks your heart. I'm that tragedy for you, and you're mine. "
12 " It’s going to be a pretty day to fly. "
13 " Your confidence in me is heartwarming.Makes me want to return all the money I stole from the little old ladies and kick the heroin. "
14 " I feel like I've been through a lot in the past couple of years, But I've kept pretty stable. That's because I channel that emotion into performance. I can handle emotion as long as it's only a song. It works for me, and I don't want to change it. I don't have anything left for writing. "
15 " He grinned at me and whispered, “I’m going to kiss you now. It’ll be a big one, so don’t hit me. "
16 " This was about to go very bad, because Adam was going to cry. “I miss you,” he said, and his voice broke. "
17 " Boys don’t gossip.”“Pah! You don’t know us as well as you think.”This was a disturbing prospect. "
18 " I wanted to remind you that you do not allow me to deliver boats, as I have been known to crash them. "
19 " Oh.” My dad actually looked sheepish. “It’s one o’clock in the morning and I was going to tell you to shut the monkey up and go to bed. I didn’t realise what was going on in here.”“What’s going on in here?” Cameron asked suspiciously.“Maturity.” My dad backed out of the room and closed the door. "
20 " Who’s driving the boat?”Over the motor, I heard girls screaming at us the instant before we crashed. "
