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1 " He bursts into tears, and not some manlike tears either, where you pretend you're brushing something off your face and, incidentally, wipe a tear. Nope. He starts bawling like a kid who spilled his Slushie... "
― Alex Flinn , Cloaked
2 " We sit, silent, the comfortable way only good friends can sit. "
3 " She's using me. And I like it. "
4 " Seem like a lot of people wear shoes they can't walk in. "
5 " When you’ve found out that the person you love loves you, you can’tdelay. You have to hurry. "
6 " A shoe that fits one person pinches another. "
7 " Like me, she has scruples. Why is it that only people with money have scruples? Do we have no money BECAUSE we have scruples? "
8 " Meg makes a face and lays her hand on my arm. "And why, exactly, would John want to see Eurotrash?""Hello?" Ryan says. "Because he's a seventeen-year old guy with normal male urges, and she's got-" He holds both hands out from his chest."Really pretty eyes," I complete his sentence. "
9 " She leans against me, head against my shoulders, and in that second, I know, against the lights and the bright and the heat and the gray, I really want to kiss her. "
10 " It had seemed like such a good, such a romantic idea, to drive and not stop for gas. "
11 " Beside me, Philippe and Meg hold hands. He murmurs something that sounds like, "my dear leetle mongoose." I wish he'd turn back into a frog and hop away. "
12 " A lie can travel half way 'round the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes. "
13 " Maybe the crazy people are the only ones who know the truth. "
14 " There're all kinds of magic in the world. "
15 " Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us, but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trup. "
16 " This has been a crazy day, a crazy week, a crazy world. "
17 " Maybe you actually do need to face obstacles with someone to know that they're the one you'd sacrifice for. "