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1 " The art does not always mimic the artist. You never know the real person until you slide beneath their surface "
― Lisa Renee Jones , If I Were You (Inside Out, #1)
2 " You know, sweetheart, I know I'm fucked up. But if you think the guy trying to protect you instead of walk all over you is the one trying to run your life, you're just as fucked up as I am. "
3 " Lies; they always come back to haunt you. "
4 " I prefer to think of it as a knack for coming to your rescue," he declares huskily and winks, before he proceeds to wipe up my mess. Oh good God. I've made Chris Merit my janitor. And, he winked at me. I can barely breathe. "
5 " Great. I'm with the hottest man I've ever known and raccoons have crawled through my hair and settled under my eyes. "
6 " Out of sight, out of mind. It's how i cope. "
7 " For the first time perhaps ever, I am not denying the truth of all of my cracks. I am living them. "
8 " ...locking myself in a shell of an existence isn't healing. It's hiding. "
9 " We are two messed-up people destined to destroy each other, but I can't walk away. No. Can't isn't the issue. I simply don't want to. "
10 " My boss is dictating my preventive hangover care, and I just used the word swords in reference to his obvious cockfight with the man I just made out with in a public hallway. I am truly in an alternate universe. "
11 " But then two lost souls searching for an escape should connect, I reason. "
12 " Other People's Perfection is a facade we create when we are second guessing ourselves.....Sara to Amanda "
13 " I approve, as I'm sire the rest of the female population does. "
14 " The rush of fear is far better than the defeat of boredom. The high of not knowing what comes next, so much better than always knowing one day will be like the last. "
15 " I decide to turn to my old faithful solution to all that is wrong in life. Coffee. It is my one real vice, so I figure why not indulge with an Olympic-style commitment? "
16 " Other people’s perfection is a facade we create when we are second-guessing ourselves, "
17 " We have too many of the wrong things in common to be more than sex, and the realization is freedom to me. "
18 " And I don’t want to be a part of the ‘who’s got the bigger sword?’ contest you two have going on, either. I don’t do cockfights. I just want to do my job and do it well. "
19 " you know what happens when you push a dragon? They burn you alive, baby. You’re playing with fire. "
20 " All I want is the here and now, this piece of time. And please save the pillow talk for someone who wants it. Contrary to what you seem to think, I'm no delicate rose "
