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1 " I want to be wherever you are. "
― Leanne Hall , Queen of the Night (This is Shyness, #2)
2 " Now I close my eyes and the notes are black ribbons spooling from my fingertips, reminding me of Wildgirl's hair. "
3 " The only other time I've seen Paul cry was when he got hit in the teeth with a cricket bat when he was fourteen. And that time Diana made us watch 'Bambi'. "
4 " Blake peers around Amelia's shoulder. "He looks like Sleeping Beauty.""Don't ever say that to his face," says Wolfboy."Actually, do. If he wakes up, promise me you'll say that to his face. "
5 " You need to wear this." Amelia holds up a chunky silver necklace studded with gemstones. I can't help scrunching up my face. It's one fugly piece of bling. "
6 " If I could retrieve my words I would, grab them out of the sky and hide them where they can't be seen. "
7 " You're good for me," I say. "The light to my shade.""Then you're the night to my day. A person needs both, you know. "
8 " It's unfortunate that the more annoyed she gets, the prettier she looks. "
9 " You're polite and sensitive, and you always try to do the right thing by people. And according to my friend Kara - you remember the blonde woman from last night? - you wear a pair of jeans very well. "
10 " I'm glad we're sitting here now. Even if it does smell like a grandma convention. "
11 " She puts her hand forward. "Come on, let's do a yay team!"Blake immediately puts her hand on top of Nia's."I'm not doing that," I say."Wolfie, do not deny us this simple pleasure. C'mon."I roll my eyes and put my hand on top of theirs."Yay team!" Squeals Blake. And she's supposed to be the sensible one. "
12 " It's like when I first saw you at the Diabetic. I went up to you, but really you made the first move.""Shut up!" She remains unconvinced. "How?"I don't answer. I sit still. Then I look at her slyly out of the corner of my eye, before looking away. I look at her again, for longer this time, then drop my eyes. For my final look I stare, and bat my eyelashes provocatively.I must do a good job because Nia laughs. It feels goo to know I can do that."You look like such a dufus in those glasses! It's not sexy at all!" She puts her hand to her reddening face. "Oh. Did I really do that?""It worked, didn't it? "
13 " Whatever fantasy I had in my head of what Wolfboy looks like, it's now clear I haven't been fantasising hard enough, not nearly. "
14 " Henny Penny," says Lupe. "Do you know this story?"I shake my head. Conversations with her can turn cryptic in the blink of an eye."She thinks the sky is falling. Do you see my meaning?""Not really.""Sometimes you have to let the world end, so you can build a new one. "
15 " Sometimes you have to let the world end, so you can build a new one. "
16 " You can try to distract me with your kisses, sir, but I will come through with the goods in the end. "
17 " Time is up for my little caravan kingdom. It's time for a window that does not look into concrete. "
18 " She's bucktoothed to an unfortunate degree. "
19 " It's never nice to admit we don't know our friends as well as we thought we did. "
20 " The colour is terrible on her. She could have been dead for ten days. In the water. "
