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1 " All of these teeth had once been in real, live people. They had talked and smiled and eaten and sang and cursed and prayed. They had brushed and flossed and died. In English class, we read poems about death, but here, right in front of me was a poem about death too. "
― Gabrielle Zevin , All These Things I've Done (Birthright, #1)
2 " There's a difference between being alive and living. "
3 " My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart. "
4 " ...lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them. "
5 " Daddy used to say that calling a person a romantic was just another way of saying he or she acted without regard for conseqences. "
6 " Tragedy is when someone ends up dead.Everything else is just a bump in the road. "
7 " Life used to move much more quickly when I was a girl. We needed to abbreviate just to keep up. "
8 " Should have. Would have. Could have. Didn't. "
9 " Let's stay young forever. Young, stupid, and pretty. Sounds like a plan, don't you think? "
10 " My brain said no.But my heart! "
11 " Dance with me,' Win said. 'I know I'm probably making a fool of myself. You're probably thinking, how many times do I have to reject this guy? Can't he take a hint?'I shook my head.'But somehow I don't even care. I see you in your red dress, standing by the punch table, and something in me wants to keep trying. I think, she is a person worth knowing. "
12 " Maybe if I'd been braver in that moment, I would have cried. "
13 " It's sad when you think about it, but also kind of beautiful. "
14 " I know you did, lass. You're the toughest girl I know.""'Lass'? Where did that come from?""I don't know. I just felt the urge to call you that. "
15 " Stop saying that! You sound absurd, and I don't even think you mean it. Besides, I'd never marry you," I told him. "I'm sixteen, and you're a slut, and you can't stop saying preposterous things!""True," he admitted. He kissed me on the lips and then I closed the door. "
16 " The theme of the dance was "Great Romances," or some such nonsense. There were projections of supposedly great couples from the past on the walls of the gym. Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, Hermione and Ron, Bonnie and Clyde, etc. "
17 " I told him I didn't want to have sex until I got married. Without missing a beat, he nodded and said, "So let's get married. "
18 " He told me that love was the only thing that really mattered in the world. "
19 " Daddy once said, "If you don't know what you believe, Annie, you'll be a lost soul. "
20 " I don't think I would have minded you being the keeper of my secrets. "
