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1 " Did you happen to see what time slot they gave me?''Eight o'clock. All eyes, er, lips will be on you.'I dug into my purse for a tube of lip balm and tucked it into the front pocket of his tee. ' A friendly deed for a friend in need. Halfway through your shift, you'll thank me.'He dug out the tube and read the label - creme de menthe flavored. 'For real? This is as close as I'm getting to touching your lips tonight? "
― Becca Fitzpatrick , Dangerous Lies
2 " I haven't been able to think straight since I met you. I can't think of a day when you haven;t been in my thoughts. There are a hundred other things I should be thinking about, but I think about you. What you're doing, when I'll see you next, what you're thinking. "
3 " It's a weakness to care. When you care, you have something to lose. "
4 " ...Because it's easier to slap on a Band-Aid than to open a would and clean it out. "
5 " It's true what they say - you know keenly, cruelly, what you're missing after it's gone. "
6 " Forgiveness took time, I decided. It was a process. Better to start slowly than not at all. "
7 " Kissing booth? - StellaKeeping tabs on me? - ChetHard not to. when they wrote your name on the roster, girls within a ten mile radius swooned and fainted flat on their backs. -StellaBut not you? - ChetI don't kiss friends - Stella "
8 " He [Reed] had never overtly flirted with me; his way of showing me he cared was always subtle. Touching my hand. Meeting my eyes across a room. Playing my favorite songs when we were driving in his car. He was secretive about everything he did, including revealing emotion... "
9 " We spend our whole lives running from our past, never realizing it's hitched to us - we can't ever outrun it. "
10 " When I was really low, when it was all I could do not to feel sorry for myself, I played that game too. I knew I could never win, but some days, the dark days, the allure of playing 'if only' was too strong to resist. "
11 " Sunlight stretched across the Nebraska miles, burning fiery pink-gold through a bank of clouds on the horizon. It was almost sunset, and the land spread out, an expanse of never-ending cornfields broken only by the rising silhouette of a windmill or grain silo. "
12 " The streets were empty and shiny black with fresh rain. I listened to the water rush under the tires and tried to not lose it completely. "
13 " My mom worked in her garden most of her adult life. She had smile lines, crow’s-feet, and sun wrinkles. And she was the most beautiful woman I’ve ever known, "
14 " Zakazane owoce dały niejeden dżem. "