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1 " Watching her, he saw again how she teetered between adolescence and adulthood, with a raw sensuality that had to deposit her in a kind of no-man's land--too much a woman for boys her own age, too young for fully adult men. "
― Keith Ablow , Murder Suicide (Frank Clevenger, #5)
2 " Oh, she was okay, just tired, tired of trying to be the one you wanted, the one you couldn't live without, the one you found yourself reaching out an arm for as she teetered from crisis to crisis to crisis only to collapse in your bed at the end of the day, a tortured sylph in black lace. Except she never really was. And you never really did. Or maybe you did for one night. The next night was another matter. It turned out the world was filled with beautiful girls. It turned out being beautiful wasn't nearly enough "
― Lucinda Rosenfeld , What She Saw...
3 " Winter teetered on the verge of succumbing to the returning sun, but today the breeze still preferred the touch of snowflakes "
― Rue , An Average Curse (The Chronicles of Hawthorn #1)
4 " When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence. "