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1 " So we have twenty-four hours to keep out of trouble,’ he says to me.I slide a glance in his direction. Judging from the way he’s now grimacing at the sidewalk and the fact that I met him in a police station where he was being booked for stealing a car, I’m guessing that staying out of trouble is not his forte. "
― Sarah Alderson , Out of Control
2 " Trust me,’ he says with a touch of impatience.‘Stop asking me to do that,’ I say, equally as impatiently. "
3 " I need a favour.’I raise my eyebrows at him in disbelief. What makes him think I’m about to do him a favour? He’s a stranger. And he’s wearing handcuffs. "
4 " . ‘Because off-duty cops walk around the city wearing sweatshirts advertising they’re cops all the time, never mind it’s a hundred degrees outside. And never mind you look like the youngest cop ever recruited in the history of policing.’He tsks at me. ‘Have you never seen 21 Jump Street? "
5 " I wasn't in control of it. I can't control life. The only thing I can do is open myself up and accept everything it throws at me, wholeheartedly. Defiantly. I don't get to quit, not when so many other people didn't even get the chance. "
6 " He talked me through the fear that had me paralysed and sobbing. He showed me that fear was nothing but a product of my imagination and that I could make it go away by changing my thoughts, taking control of them, and showing the fear who was boss. Fear became an animal that I could put on a leash and lock away in a cage. "