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Charmed Thirds (Jessica Darling, #3) QUOTES

Charmed Thirds (Jessica Darling, #3) QUOTES

1 " I love when I reach Marcus on the phone and as he says hello, I can hear the music he's listening to in the background. That music is the sound of him without me. How he surrounds himself when I'm not there, which is almost all the time. "

― Megan McCafferty , Charmed Thirds (Jessica Darling, #3)

2 " And now, as I'm lying alone in my own bed, I keep thinking about writhing against him last night, naked and vulnerable. Even after we'd both risen and fallen, peaked and plummeted, even after Marcus was physically shrinking from inside me, I couldn't stop clutching, crying, trying. Trying to pull him deeper, deeper, deeper within.

Trying to make him more a part of me than I am myself. "

― Megan McCafferty , Charmed Thirds (Jessica Darling, #3)

3 " High school parties exhausted me because I always felt like I was the only thinking person in a room mostly full of morons obliterating precious IQ points with every gulp of whatever booze they managed to steal out of their parents' liquor cabinets. College parties are exhausting in a diametrically opposite way. They are full of smart, funny people who are all used to being the smartest, funniest person in the room, so they spend the whole party talking over one another, overlapping and overtaking the conversation to prove that they are the smartest, funniest person in the room, if not the entire planet. "

― Megan McCafferty , Charmed Thirds (Jessica Darling, #3)

4 " According to Jung, synchronicity is an unpredictable moment of meaningful coincidence "

― Megan McCafferty , Charmed Thirds (Jessica Darling, #3)

5 " Whaddaya want?" growled Viola, our small, surly, octogenarian waitress.
What did I want? A job. A clue. A love.
"Two coffees," Len answered for me.
Coffee would do for now, I guess. "

― Megan McCafferty , Charmed Thirds (Jessica Darling, #3)

6 " You get older, but you don't ever feel grown up "

― Megan McCafferty , Charmed Thirds (Jessica Darling, #3)

7 " I thought Marcus was going to be in my life forever. Then I thought I was wrong. Now he’s back. But this time I know what’s certain: Marcus will be gone again, and back again and again and again because nothing is permanent. Especially people. Strangers become friends. Friends become lovers. Lovers become strangers. Strangers become friends once more, and over and over. Tomorrow, next week, fifty years from now, I know I’ll get another one-word postcard from Marcus, because this one doesn’t have a period signifying the end of the sentence.

Or the end of anything at all. "

― Megan McCafferty , Charmed Thirds (Jessica Darling, #3)

8 " Most people talk when they have nothing to say. I’m not talking because I have too much to say. None of which I’d want you to hear. "

― Megan McCafferty , Charmed Thirds (Jessica Darling, #3)

9 " I know it makes sense for me and him to just break up now and just live our seperate lives and not have to worry about missing each other all the time. But when I think about that, I get sick. Physically sick. Like I seriously throw up. I need to be with him, even if I can’t, like, be with him. "

― Megan McCafferty , Charmed Thirds (Jessica Darling, #3)

10 " Why do you even put up with me?'
'I'm not putting up with you,' he said, softly. 'I'm loving you. "

― Megan McCafferty , Charmed Thirds (Jessica Darling, #3)

11 " So everything we believe about happiness is wrong," I said.

He nodded.

Everything?" I asked, when what I meant was, Everything? Including you? Including me?

And Marcus, being Marcus, knew what I really wanted to know, and answered my silent, more significant question. He held up his hand to shield the rays and looked me in the eyes.

Almost. "

― Megan McCafferty , Charmed Thirds (Jessica Darling, #3)

12 " When I'm at school in the city, I don't feel particularly worldly or wise. It's only when I come back home that I remember exactly why I left. "

― Megan McCafferty , Charmed Thirds (Jessica Darling, #3)

13 " That's what all love comes down to, doesn't it? We help others only as much as they let us. "

― Megan McCafferty , Charmed Thirds (Jessica Darling, #3)

14 " chromosomal dance
oh, heavenly happenstance
rare creation, you

-Marcus (Poetry Spam #22) "

― Megan McCafferty , Charmed Thirds (Jessica Darling, #3)

15 " Love may have the longest arms, but it can still fall short of an embrace. "

― Megan McCafferty , Charmed Thirds (Jessica Darling, #3)

16 " Even with the best intentions, growing apart might just be an inevitable part of growing up. "

― Megan McCafferty , Charmed Thirds (Jessica Darling, #3)

17 " Well, I think it's possible to love someone and still be curious about someone else. And I think you should be able to act on that impulse without impunity. But in our society, where monogamy rules despite all the evidence that it doesn't work, a person is demonized for wanting to break from that traditional model of relationships. I think you can love someone, truly love someone, and still be drawn to someone
else. Enough to want to kiss that other person, just to see what it would be like. Or maybe to help confirm that what you've got is better than what else is out there. Because isn't the desire alone a form of betrayal? So what further harm does it do to put those thoughts into action? Ideally, you would be able just to go back to the person you love after you've kissed that other person and discovered it wasn't as
interesting as you thought it would be, which I would imagine would be the case most of the time. And in the event that itis unexpectedly amazing, isn't it better to have experienced that moment of bliss rather than imagine what it could have been like? "

― Megan McCafferty , Charmed Thirds (Jessica Darling, #3)

18 " What are your thoughts?'
'My thoughts?' I replied, before I even realized what I was saying. 'My thoughts created my world.'
Mac sat up in his seat. He scrunched his curls with his hands, perplexed. 'Who said that?'
I told him the truth.
'Oh, just someone I used to know,' I said, stroking the naked skin on my middle finger. "

― Megan McCafferty , Charmed Thirds (Jessica Darling, #3)

19 " Women will always choose the man over the best friend. This is a sad but true fact of life, and it's only this certitude that makes me unashamed to admit it. "

― Megan McCafferty , Charmed Thirds (Jessica Darling, #3)

20 " I hate the very human inclination towards insensitivity "

― Megan McCafferty , Charmed Thirds (Jessica Darling, #3)