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1 " Still, she knows one thing for certain: never judge a relationship unless you are the one wrapped up in its arms. "
― Alice Hoffman , Local Girls
2 " I could hardly get a boy to look at me. All right, they'd look, they'd even take me out, but no one asked for a second date. I was too nasty, a real wise guy, and all the boys could tell what my rotten disposition was. Deep down, I wanted a commitment with a capital C. To get anywhere with me, a boy would have to sign his undying loyalty with his own blood. "
3 " Jill and I have known each other our whole lives. One house separates our houses but we act as if it doesn't exist. We met before we were born and we'll probably still know each other after we die. At least, that's the way we're planning it. "
4 " It was the sort of beauty you feel so deeply it becomes contagious and somehow makes you feel beautiful too. "
5 " Certain things need not be said, and there’s nothing, not a whisper, prayer, not a sacrifice, not a payment of any price, that would change what’s about to happen. "
6 " Time wasn't the same anymore. Doors were slamming shut before we even knew they'd been opened. Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot. "
7 " Here's the thing about luck...you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective. "
8 " Before she realized he was next to her, he had placed his hands over hers on the countertop, then hooped his fingers through hers. Gretel looked up at him, so startled she might as well have been shot.'I just wanted to wake you up', he said.Which is exactly what he did. One look at him and her heart was racing. One look, and whatever had been before was all over. "
9 " ...he had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he'd have to be the one to let go. "
10 " He'd thought he was lost, but now he recognized that eternity was around him, like salt from a shaker or stars in the sky. "
11 " Jill told me that when you're really in love, you know right away. I'm not exactly sure how this happens. Is it like a flash of lightning? Like an angel tapping you on the shoulder? Or is it similar to choosing a puppy? You think you're picking the cutest one, but really you wind up going home with the one who keeps insisting on climbing into your lap. "
12 " In the darkest hour of winter, when the starlings had all flown away, Gretel Samuelson fell in love. It happened the way things are never supposed to happen in real life, like a sledgehammer, like a bolt from out of the blue. One minute she was a seventeen year-old senior in high school waiting for a Sicilian pizza to go; the next one she was someone whose whole world had exploded, leaving her adrift in the Milky Way, so far from earth she was walking on stars. "
13 " Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot. "
14 " Revenge did that to a person; it caused even the insecure and the meek to take foolhardy chances. After a while it became a way of life; the risks felt as natural as drawing a breath. "
15 " She wishes nightmares were all that kept her awake. She cannot tell which disturbs here more, the future or the past. "
16 " Well, maybe that's what love is, as state of mind ready to grace anyone willing to accept it. Anyone who cares. "
17 " Fate could twist you around and around if you weren't careful. Just when you thought you knew where you were headed, you'd wind up in the opposite direction, or flattened against a wall. "
18 " One thing I've learned is that strange things do happen. They happen all the time. Today, for instance, my best friend Jill's cat spoke. We were making brownies in the kitchen when we heard it say, 'Let me out. "
19 " You can only know a friend so well after all. When you come right down to it, even your best friend is a puzzle. "
20 " One morning when the air was misleading and mild with hope.... "
