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1 " It hasn't been just a weekend for me, Wilson. I've wanted you for so long. I fought off the thoughts every day, exhausting every option to keep you off my mind; I can't do it anymore. I want you right here. "
― Gretchen de la O , Almost Eighteen (Wilson Mooney #1)
2 " Frickin' hit me with the speeding car, now. Take away my intense craving to force myself against him and taste his lips. "
3 " We all have skeletons in our closets. Some of us are just better at hiding them behind the hangers filled with clothes." "Yeah, right, you don't seem like the type of guy who has a pile of femur bones stuffed behind your collared shirts and navy blue blazers." Nick and Wilson "
4 " Is this how you see me – as your government teacher? Because if I saw you as a student I wouldn’t be here right now. When I look at you I see the girl I want to be with. Have since the first day you walked into my room. "
5 " There are a ton of reasons why I shouldn’t be with you, but none are convincing enough to keep me from being here, tonight. "
6 " Wilson, think of this as the beginning. Not the end. "
7 " Yeah, well, if it wasn’t your birthday and I wasn’t so madly in love with you-” his voice trailed off… "
8 " His career, my education, his freedom, my innocence…all tied together in a nice little package of morality. "