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1 " Oh, to be the author of prison letters. It's a young girl's dream come true. "
― Jenny B. Jones , In Between (Katie Parker Productions, #1)
2 " I love that feeling, when music rumbles in your chest and soaks all the way through, like it’s a part of you. "
3 " My own forecast? How about stressful with a hundred percent chance of freaking out. "
4 " There are mistakes, and then there are choices. "
5 " One of these days really soon, you’re going to be able to say, ‘I know what it is to be wanted, what it is to be loved. I know what home is, and I’m right where I’m supposed to be. "
6 " This is a great turtle, Katie.” “James.” Millie brings the waffles to the table. “Are you blind?” Yeah, you tell him, Millie. Some people just can’t appreciate good art. Millie holds her folded napkin up proudly. “It’s a frog.” True artists (like Picasso or me) are always misunderstood. "
7 " Like ‘No dinner for you until you’ve cleaned the refrigerator!’ Or how about ‘No water for you until you’ve filed our taxes, waxed our vehicles, washed the dog, patched the roof, and given Grandma Scott her pedicure. "
8 " WWJD, "
9 " And he slept right through it?” Apparently everyone in town is familiar with Mr. Patton’s teaching style. “No, he shot out of his chair, yelling, ‘Give me liberty or give me death! "
10 " kids who have been tossed around some, we just want to be accepted. And who is the most accepting group on a school campus? The troublemakers. It may not be right, but sometimes it’s as close to right as we can find. "
11 " I am so not into poetry. I thoroughly dislike the stuff. You read a poem, and it speaks to you. You write a stupid essay on it, and the teacher tells you your interpretation is wrong, and the author is really saying something else entirely. Oh, really? Did you talk to the author yourself? No, I didn’t think so! "
12 " hasn’t shown a single sign of wanting to stone me for my misdeeds and poor choice of friends, so what’s a little "
13 " It’s about a teenage girl. She finds out she’s a princess, goes to live in a foreign country, endures rigorous training to become royalty, wins the heart of everyone in the land, hooks up with a boy, and finds out she is to one day be queen of an entire nation. "
14 " 31 Chapter 32 Chapter 33 Chapter 34 Chapter 35 Chapter 36 Chapter 37 Chapter 38 Chapter 39 Chapter 40 Chapter 41 Chapter 42 "
15 " Dinner is a quiet affair. At least on my end. Mr. and Mrs. Scott do all the talking, and I do all the eating. Actually I don’t really eat. I just shove things around on my plate until I finally discover a use for Rocky the horse. It seems he’s mighty fond of Mrs. Scott’s pot roast with the potato-and-carrot medley. Part of my brain is marveling over the food before me, the taste and appearance, as well as the care that went into making it. My own mother thought variety in your diet meant eating a different Hot Pocket than you did the night before. But the dinner table scene is just too awkward and foreign for me to be able to do anything but sit here with a stomach full of nerves. I sneak a glance under the table at Rocky making a big production of licking the gravy off his mammoth chops. "
16 " Jesus loves peanut butter, and so do I” is legit. "
17 " children are. Moms to push their swings. Dads to wipe the dirt off scraped knees. Beyond the park there’s a water "
18 " The guys who like me usually have a few body piercings and a taste for cheap cigarettes. "
19 " the fact is Mrs. Bobbie Ann Parker (a.k.a. my mom) found not everyone liked her products or appreciated her business skills. And when I say everyone, I mean the police. And when I say products, I mean drugs. "
20 " First, "