Erica Lorraine Scheidt Quotes

#1. And then he hugs me. Really hugs me. Like he thinks that there's only one of me and I'm special and I'm enough for him. Like he doesn't need anything else. Like he was alone and then I came along.

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#2. The thing I've learned is that thinking is not writing.

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#3. I belong here, I tell Toy. I'm hungry for every city block. Every brick building. Every crowded intersection. Electric. I feel brand new.

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#4. Alone is how our story starts. But then I came along and changed all that.

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#5. It doesn't matter what story we're telling, we're telling the story of family.

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#6. And the stories we tell ourselves are not the only stories.

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#7. All of me, I think. I still have that.

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#8. You don't look like anyone special at all, I tell him. And I curse him. And I start a club to hate him. And I make a magic spell to get rid of him.

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#9. I want Toy to know that I know. That no matter how many boys tell her they love her, how many boys tell her she's beautiful, how many boys crawl into her window at night and make love to her, it doesn't help. That I know it doesn't help. She is my sister and I love her. Like I want her to love me.

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#10. Sam's house is everything I wanted, but didn't know to want ... I want to wrap myself in this house like a blanket.

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#11. I want to go back to the tell-me-again times when I slept in her bed and we were everything together. When I was everything to her. Everything she needed.

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#12. Angel asks me about Josh and I tell her that he likes it when I fall asleep with my head on his chest. I tell her how he keeps me wrapped up in his arms all night. How romantic it is, how he's loved me forever.
She knows how it is with boys. "It's always romantic in the beginning," she says.

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#13. She's never been touched by a boy who knows what love looks like.I picture Sam's parents, his mom resting her hand in the center of his dad's back and the way his dad leans back against her.

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#14. It's hard, omigod remember? Being a kid.

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#15. If you give boys what they want, they give you what you need. Right?

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