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People always say they can't do things, that they're impossible. They just haven't been creative enough.
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Can I tell you something you really don't want to hear? He's going to break up with you. - Stuart
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Running away is pretty pathetic, but it's even worse getting caught.
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With that, I splashed some water on my face, fixed on a smile, and stepped out. I would find Jerome. I would make him explain to me what I was missing. We would laugh, then we would kiss with tongue, and all would be well.
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Maureen Johnson |
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You have to imagine your way through. Never say something can't be done, even if it's weird.
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10/30/38 Where do you look for someone who's never really there? Always on a staircase but never on a stair
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It took about three minutes for the unassuming Waffle House to become the new offices of the law firm of Amber, Amber, Amber, and Madison. They set up camp in a clump of booths in the corner opposite from us. A few of them gave me an "oh, good, you are still alive" nod, but for the most part, they had no interest in anyone else."
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It makes you very cool," he said, taking big, jumping steps to get in front of me. "CNN would interview you, for sure. Daughter of Flobie! But don't worry. I'll keep them back!"
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Being sixteen means you have to be a genius conversational editor.
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People don't change . . . You just sort of have to take them like they are.
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The real magic rocks are the friends we make along the way.
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I don't think I've ever seen you without braids. I thought your hair just grew that way.
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What she didn't display, I noticed, was a boxful of swimming medals. "Holy crap," I said, when she set them on the desk. "You're like a fish." "Oh. Um. Well, I swim, you see." I saw."
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I am getting so sick of looking at this kidney," I said. "It's a farce," Jazza replied. "They act like they're shocked and horrified, and then they show it off twenty times a day." "Have you seen the singing kidney video?" I asked. "Ugh. No." "It's really funny. You should watch it."
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She looks like a jumper to me. Jumpers do that a lot, stand on the edge and stare out. Never kill yourself in a Tube station. Tip number one. You might end up down here forever, staring at the wall." Stephen coughed a little. "Just giving advice," Callum said."
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Charlotte, dressed in a very short-skirted policewoman's outfit, was leading a dancing brigade, jumping around at the front of the room, her long red hair flapping up and down like a matador's cape. She was head girl, and she would shows us how to party if she had to. I wasn't really sure why Charlotte had decided to come to the party as a stripper. I found myself at a loss for words as she complimented us on our costumes. "You're a..." I t..
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Don-Keun was a new man. The moment they arrived, he vanished for a second. We heard muffled ecstatic screaming coming from somewhere in the back of the Waffle House kitchen, then he reappeared, his face shining with the kind of radiance usually associated with religious epiphany.
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Did they know that Arthur Conan Doyle went on to investigate mysteries in his real life and absolved a man for a crime for which he has been convicted? Did they know how Agatha Christie brilliantly staged her own disappearance in order to exact an elegant revenge on a cheating husband? They probably did not. And no one was going to discount Stevie Bell, who had gotten into this school on the wings of her interest in the Ellingham case, and ..
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Once again, her parents' problems had run through her life like a piece of heavy equipment, smashing everything in their way.
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I annoy people," he said. "Believe me. I'm aware. It's an effective way to communicate if you don't have any other options. If you can't get in through the door, throw a rock through the window. And I think maybe you're the same way. - David, to Stevie"
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Maureen Johnson |
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Sherlock said, "I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose."
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Maureen Johnson |
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QUESTION EVERYTHING; STAND BACK, I'M GOING TO TRY SCIENCE!; I REJECT YOUR REALITY AND SUBSTITUTE MY OWN.
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Did you hear?" he asked. "They found another body around nine this morning. It's the Ripper, definitely." "Good morning," I replied. "Morning. Listen to this. The second victim..."
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Before I take you into the beating heart of the story, let's get one thing out of the way. I know from experience that when it comes up later, it will distract you so much that you won't be able to concentrate on anything else I will tell you. My name is Jubilee Dougal. Take a moment and let it sink in.
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Some nutter's gone and pulled a Jack the Ripper.
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He was the closest thing she had to a pony.
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We all know what we're doing. Whether we realize it or not.
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No one in history had ever done less and yet been so wrong.
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Shame is like melting. You can actually feel your muscles sag and drop, as if your body is preparing you to crawl, or possibly ooze, to the nearest exit.
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This wasn't a position she wanted to be in. And yet . . . yet she knew that she was going to do it anyway.
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She called, "Au a!" in a penetrating voice that could cause a small bird to fall dead out of the sky."
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The day was ridiculous. In fact, the situation was so serious I thought they had to be joking - like maybe they staged a special first day to psych people out. I had one class in the morning, the mysteriously named "Further Maths." It was two hours long and so deeply frightening that I think I went into a trance."
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Mouth guard. And I think we'll start you in goal." Goal sounded like a special job. I didn't want a special job, unless that special job involved sitting on the side under a pile of blankets."
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The essay I had to read was called, "An Essay on Criticism" by Alexander Pope. The first challenge was that the essay was, in fact, a very long poem in "heroic couplets". If something is called an essay, it should be an essay."
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Maureen Johnson |
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What tinfoil?" he asked."
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Maureen Johnson |
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No one hid their interest when I walked into the room. I'm not sure if it was the news about Boo or my general appearance. At home, people would have asked. People would have been crawling all over me for information. At Wexford, they seemed to extract what they wanted to know by covert staring.
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Maureen Johnson |
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Where her books were, she was. Get the books right and the rest will follow.
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Maureen Johnson |
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New start or not, there was a line to be drawn, and that line was singing musicals to yourself as serious psychological motivation.
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Hot tea," he said, holding the cups. "It's just wrong."
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The best I ever got was that woman who kept having me come up to fix her TV. There was a lot of bending involved. I felt used and dirty. It's the price you pay for being one of those weedy but good-looking types, Scarlett said. Weedy? You hurt me. I prefer tall and scrawny. Unlike my partner, who's right behind you.
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From this close, she could see the color of his eyes perfectly. They were a misty, shifting blue marbled with gray, like smoke rising through an early morning sky.
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Maureen Johnson |
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DETECTION HAS MANY METHODS, MANY PATHWAYS, NARROW AND subtle. Fingerprints. The lost piece of thread. The dog barking in the night. But there is also Google.
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Maureen Johnson |
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After that, I felt like I had two lives. There was the me I had been before the attack, the one people knew and wanted to relate to. The one people wanted to comfort and fix. And there was another me, a hidden me that no one ever saw. There was a me who had tasted death. That me knew things others people didn't know.
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I love Ginny's expedition!
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