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1 " I don't answer. I shut my eyes and hold my breath and hope whoever it is will think I'm not here and go home. "
― Jennifer Weiner , Who Do You Love
2 " Your friends will still be your friends, if they're good friends. "
3 " I'm saying that it's a big decision. Your first love is important. It's part of your story The story you'll tell yourself, the one you'll tell about yourself, for the rest of your life. "
4 " Sometimes I wish it has been you. "
5 " First of all, it's life. You don't win. "
6 " It was high school. Evil is kind of the name of the game. "
7 " I wanted love, the big love, the kind people wrote songs and made movies about. I wanted to be the center of some guy’s universe, the only thing he could think about. I wanted to matter that way. "
8 " Your first love is important. It’s part of your story. The story you’ll tell yourself, the one you’ll tell about yourself, for the rest of your life. "
9 " The measure of a man is, does he know how to love. "
10 " He’d been lonely, and I’d been lonely, but if we were together, we’d never have to be lonely again. "
11 " You'll get through it," she said, leaving out the part I already knew-because you're a mother now. Because mothers don't have a choice. "
12 " Born on third base and think they hit a triple, "
13 " I didn't trust people who forgot to eat. "
14 " If you want to hit someone or you want to throw something, I want you to run first. I want you to run until you can hardly lift your legs and your arms. Run until you’re exhausted, and then, if you still want to hit someone or throw something, you just wait ’til you’ve caught your breath again and then go for it. Try it, "
15 " I should have been moved. I wasn’t. It was as if I’d been frozen, as if I was now a woman made of ice, and he’d come at me not with a torch or even a candle, but with a toothpick, and was plink plink plinking against the smooth impenetrability of my body. I couldn’t feel a thing. "
16 " He had sacrificed so much -- And now? What if not even all that was enough to quiet that voice....the voice that said, 'You're not worthy, you don't deserve it, nothing you do will ever be enough. "
17 " Did any love ever feel as sweet as first love? Were we all just damaged goods now, battered cans in the grocery store sale bin, day old bread, marked down at the registered, hoping that someone would look past the obvious flaws and love us enough to take us home? "
18 " drawing of a boy with brown hair and "
19 " room and refused to return to the table, even "
20 " He's a great guy, she said ,and he heard her try to sound enthusiastic,like she was selling herself on her soon-to-be-husband's greatness...and then,in a whispered rush, just before she cut the connection,he thought he heard her say,"Sometimes I wish it had been you "