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The Best Night of Your (Pathetic) Life QUOTES

The Best Night of Your (Pathetic) Life QUOTES

1 " He wanted more than anything, to walk over the bridge. To just leave Oyster Point and go to college in the city, where maybe people were different. But he also said that he was afraid that if he set out to cross that bridge, he might not make it to the other end without giving in to the temptation to jump and just be done with it. "

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2 " I knew guys got erections.
I was perfectly prepared to deal with it. When the right guy and the right erection came along. "

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3 " I felt sort of sad that I couldn’t remember the last time, before tonight, that I’d paid such close attention to the sky. It felt like that must be some kind of sign that I’d lost my innocence and grown up without even realizing it. "

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4 " It didn't matter.
Carson wasn’t the one for me. He wasn’t even the one for right now. My life would hopefully have its great love story but this wasn't it. It would happen in D.C. in the next four years or it would happen in Africa, if I ever got there, or in Sienna or, for all I knew, Kentucky or Timbuktu.
Life was long.
And people only really had great love affairs in high school in the movies. And maybe during world wars. But this was not a movie and not a war, even if it sometimes felt that way. It was only high school and it was almost over with anyway. "

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5 " We’d had a bunch of classes together over the years, but I couldn’t be sure we’d ever spoken one-on-one and now that made me sad. "

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6 " It was enough to make me feel like retreating into some wooded or snowy clime, where only the most determined photographers or Mary-hunters might find me. "

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7 " You always think the best of me,' I said, squeezing water from my hair. 'Even when you shouldn't.'
'That's what love is,' he said, and he got up and walked inside. "

― , The Best Night of Your (Pathetic) Life