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1 " Jason Vanderholt is off the market.""I wasn't ever for sale," muttered Jason. "
― E.M. Tippetts , Someone Else's Fairytale (Someone Else's Fairytale, #1)
2 " Movies, good ones, with good leads, they give the audience something they need, okay? A release. An escape. Something that some of us are too broken to give ourselves. Maybe if I'd had a normal childhood, I'd be able to daydream and fantasize and all that on my own, but do you know how many of us can't? People need their dreams. There's a reason why society pays good money for them. "
3 " What makes a story a fairytale is the ending. "
4 " If I wanted to buy you off I'd, I dunno, give you a big gift certificate to Amazon or something. "
5 " It's not my fairytale. It's not anything I ever wanted. It's the last thing I've ever wanted. I hate crowds. I don't want to be the envy of every other woman on the planet. I never dreamed of being with a guy with flawless good looks. This is someone else's fairytale. "
6 " I want to be your Prince Charming, "
7 " I love you. I mean that, all right? I don't know what kind of guys you've been dating in college, but I'm over the novelty of not living with my parents and having my own king size bed. Really.” I couldn't help it. I laughed. That was a new twist in the Talk I'd never heard before. "
8 " I just need to have you close. The more time I spend with you, the more I want. "
9 " I just ignored him then. My food was way more interesting than his condescension. "
10 " He's got it bad for you, Chloe. Anyone who sees him with you could tell that. "
11 " lungs, and the stars winked distantly in the deep cobalt sky. It was three thirty a.m., way too early to be awake. A truck turned the corner and rumbled its way over to our house. I watched it parallel park, then go silent as the lights switched "
12 " crisp air, tinged with the scent of woodsmoke, flushed "
13 " to counterbalance my housemate, Lori, who just then skipped out the front door, jumped down onto the gravel, and struck an action pose, both hands up, ready to karate chop whatever imaginary adversary might be lurking under the giant cottonwood that dominated our front "
14 " be lurking under the giant cottonwood that dominated our front yard. She wasn’t wearing any nylons with "
15 " watched it parallel park, then go silent as the lights switched off. The driver’s side door opened, and my best friend, Matthew, stepped down. His cowboy boots thudded against the asphalt, "
16 " door into the frigid, Albuquerque night. The crisp air, tinged with the scent of woodsmoke, flushed through my lungs, and the stars winked distantly in the deep cobalt sky. It was three thirty a.m., "
17 " woodsmoke, flushed through my lungs, and the stars winked distantly in the deep cobalt sky. It was three thirty "
18 " our house. I watched it parallel park, then go "
19 " multi-bazillion dollar New Light franchise, Vanderholt "
20 " door into the frigid, Albuquerque night. The crisp air, tinged with the scent of woodsmoke, flushed through my lungs, and the stars winked distantly "