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1 " Big surprise, I put you to sleep. Don’t feel bad. It happens all the time. "
― Robyn Carr , The Newcomer (Thunder Point, #2)
2 " You should get a better boyfriend. One with an IQ higher than a turnip. "
3 " Sometimes you learn your best lessons when you add up all your losses.” She "
4 " Lou had a memory like an elephant; it took a lot to cause her to hold a grudge, but once she achieved it, it was even harder for her to let go. "
5 " Protect yourself from people who have the habit of being mean, "
6 " The thing about the hard times, the stupid times, they make you who you are. And regrets—I look back and ask myself if I didn’t do a certain thing that I’m really ashamed of, how would that change the present? What would it erase from my current life? What if I hadn’t been such a badass idiot back then? Would I have learned the cost of that recklessness? "
7 " I think loving someone and losing them can leave a hole in your heart. "
8 " scars are much tougher than virgin skin. "
9 " underage and everyone knew "
10 " And Gina went "
11 " my mother—a young woman with a passel of kids and no "
12 " on, Ash,” she said. “You have to get a "
13 " that they’d throw me promotions for being female, but "
14 " regrets— I look back and ask myself if I didn’t do a certain thing that I’m really ashamed of, how would that change the present? What would it erase from my current life? What if I hadn’t been such a badass idiot back then? Would I have learned the cost of that recklessness? Would you be here? There are things I’m totally ashamed of that I wouldn’t change. "