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The Babysitter (Professionals, #5) QUOTES

The Babysitter (Professionals, #5) QUOTES

1 " You want coffee?"

"I want my goat. And explanations. "

― Jessica Gadziala , The Babysitter (Professionals, #5)

2 " I didn't have to like the part of me that was hesitant to allow people to care for me, take care of me, to know that it was a part of me. "

― Jessica Gadziala , The Babysitter (Professionals, #5)

3 " Maybe I didn't always make it easy to care, but they did, regardless of my comfort level with it. "

― Jessica Gadziala , The Babysitter (Professionals, #5)

4 " What kind of dog?"

"A Shih Tzu."

"That's not a dog. It's a purse gremlin. "

― Jessica Gadziala , The Babysitter (Professionals, #5)

5 " I don't know if I could claim happy as something I knew. Contentment, sure. I was content here, peaceful, satisfied even. But happy wasn't quite the right word. "

― Jessica Gadziala , The Babysitter (Professionals, #5)

6 " There were lines you crossed, ones you toed, and ones you stayed the fuck away from. "

― Jessica Gadziala , The Babysitter (Professionals, #5)

7 " Pretty hurts. Ugly does its job comfortably. "

― Jessica Gadziala , The Babysitter (Professionals, #5)

8 " Sure, this was a small thing in the grand scheme of things. But little things led to big things. Until one day, everything is different. "

― Jessica Gadziala , The Babysitter (Professionals, #5)

9 " I... dunno. I feel a little off."

"Off like you're about to be curled on the couch demanding chocolate, or off like I should sleep with all the sharp objects in my room with me? "

― Jessica Gadziala , The Babysitter (Professionals, #5)

10 " Trying to keep him from messing with someone is like trying to stop a toddler from getting into trouble. "

― Jessica Gadziala , The Babysitter (Professionals, #5)

11 " Don't be side-eyeing me you beak-nosed butthead. "

― Jessica Gadziala , The Babysitter (Professionals, #5)

12 " Some men will be worth two nights of your tears, Meads," she informed me with a knowledgeable nod. "But not a single one in this whole wide world is worth three nights of them. "

― Jessica Gadziala , The Babysitter (Professionals, #5)

13 " It was freeing not to hide my feelings, or make excuses or apologies for them when they popped out.

I just got to be.

I wasn't sure I had ever been able to simply be before in my life.

Without the constant voice in my head telling me all the things I should - or shouldn't - be doing, what I was screwing up, what I needed to work on, what I needed to think, eat, do - there was so much quiet inside. "

― Jessica Gadziala , The Babysitter (Professionals, #5)

14 " Because someone thinking they knew better than you did how you were handling a situation sucked. Because someone you genuinely cared about telling you that you were messed up in the head - you guessed it - sucked. "

― Jessica Gadziala , The Babysitter (Professionals, #5)