Cammie McGovern Quotes

#1. What's a strapless bra?" he finally asked.
"LIKE A TOURNIQUET FOR YOUR CHEST."
"Can you breathe if you're wearing it?"
"BARELY

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#2. You don't have to date me, just don't date her. Please, as your friend, I'm begging you not to date someone who doesn't appreciate you.

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#3. JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE TOO SCARED TO TAKE ANY RISKS DOESN'T MEAN THE REST OF US SHOULD BE.

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#4. Stains were a patchwork of mistakes you couldn't get rid of. They showed the world your real self, even the parts you didn't want it to see.

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#5. It surprised me because she put it as well (or better) than I could have and made a simple point she didn't even intend: being disabled wasn't the main thing about her.

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#6. It was about acceptance, he thought. About realizing no one is perfect and no one can expect to change someone else. Which

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#7. Her idea had a beautiful simplicity at first.

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#8. Scratch a female inmate, I've discovered, and you'll usually find a girl whose mother had terrible taste in men.

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#9. Don't worry. Here's the thing I've learned about pregnancy. Everything feels like a crisis and everything turns out to be heartburn.

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#10. I've decided that it's possible to love someone for entirely selfless reasons, for all of their flaws and weaknesses, and still not succeed in having them love you back. It's sad, perhaps, but not tragic, unless you dwell forever in the pursuit of their elusive affections.

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#11. I suspect we have both lived lives that appeared to have serene surfaces and were, for both of us, hollow and impossible to sustain.

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#12. There isn't any one big test or way to validate ourselves in the world. There's just a long, quiet process of finding our place in it

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#13. I thought helping someone else might take me out of my own head for a while.

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#14. YOUR FEAR MAY SEEM REAL BUT THE DANGER IS NOT. YOU'RE SAFE. YOU'RE ALL RIGHT. YOU'RE HAVING A PANIC ATTACK.

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#15. According to Sarah, who had gone two years ago, prom was famous for being an overpriced disappointment where most people had no fun.

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#16. Oh God, this is my fantasy! Where those just-friend boys suddenly realize they love me.'
'I don't know if this was like that.'
'What happened?'
He thought for a moment. 'Well. I realized I loved her.'
Hannah gasped. 'Oh God, that's so sweet.

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#17. It was electrifying the way he watched her so carefully that he forgot himself.

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#18. This is what we do, my mother's life said. We find ourselves in the sacrifices we make.

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#19. He stood in front of her and told her he'd come, not to climb her tower but to shelter it. In his clumsy way, he was like a prince who arrived with sweaty armpits and bad hair. At least I'm here, he might have said. That's better than nothing. And it was.

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#20. Let's don't wait forever for our lives to start. Let's begin them ourselves. Let's be fearless for once and say, we can do this.

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#21. I have learned not to judge people by their limitations, but by the way they push past them.

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#22. Freakishness could happen to anyone at any time.

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#23. This feeling will pass. The fear is real but the danger is not.

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