Francesca Zappia Quotes & Sayings

#1. A feeling erupted in my stomach, like nothing would ever be the same again. Like good karma was catching up with me. Like someone had opened up the lid to my lobster tank and I was finally breathing in the shockingly fresh air.

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#2. I think you're an improvement on my imagination," I said, flipping back through the pages.
"You, too," he said. "My imagination - well, what little imagination I have - doesn't quite live up to the real thing."
"Agreed," I said. "The real thing is much better.

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#3. I couldn't think of anyone else.

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#4. How could anyone go this far down the rabbit hole without realizing they needed help?

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#5. Maybe that's normal. The things you care most about are the ones that leave the biggest holes.

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#6. Yeah. I told you he was crazy, right? I heard he does some weird stuff at home, too.' He said it with a conspiratorial stage whisper. 'Like mowing his lawn, and trimming his peonies.'

'Peonies?' I balked. 'God, he really is a freak.

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#7. Dear Asshole: Thank you for keeping your word and believing me. It was more than I expected. Also, I'm sorry you were inconvenienced by my gluing your locker shut at the beginning of this year. However, I am not sorry that I did it, because it was a lot of fun. Love, Alex.

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#8. Survivors. What better word for people who made it out of this place alive?" -Alex

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#9. Over time, the real remained in the photo while the hallucinations faded away. I discovered what sorts of things my mind liked to make up.

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#10. I didn't have the luxury of taking reality for granted. And I wouldn't say I hated people who did, because that's just about everyone. I didn't hate them. They didn't live in my world.

But that never stopped me from wishing I lived in theirs.

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#11. He had to be real. Out of everything, he had to be real.

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#12. There are monsters in the sea.

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#13. Yeah, we never said we liked you," said Ian, smiling. "We just prefer that you don't die.

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#14. Made you breakfast. Are you feeling okay? You look a little gray." I grunt. Morning is the devil's time.

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#15. Stop calling me a Nazi." "Why should I?" Miles's hand came down on the desk. "Because the systematic slaughter of millions of people isn't funny!

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#16. It kind of felt like she was kicking me in the gut, and every kick said
I don't want you.
I don't need you.
I don't love you.

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#17. It looked like the kind of dog that ate babies for breakfast, old men for lunch, and virgin sacrifices for dinner.

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#18. My first-ever friend was a hallucination: a sparkling entry on my new resume as a crazy person.

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#19. I pushed myself back up. He kept staring at me. I realized I wanted to kiss him.

I didn't know why. Maybe it was the way he looked at me like I was the only thing he wanted to look at.

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#20. I grabbed his hand. He jumped and stared at the connection like something both magical and dangerous had happened.

"Do you wanna be friends?" I asked.

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#21. I wished I had put more cherries on that slice. The whole jar of cherries. I could watch him eat a whole jar of cherries.
Jesus Christ on a pogo stick, what was happening to me?

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#22. Intelligence is not measured by how much you know, but by how much you have the capacity to learn.

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#23. I stood there looking stupid, because that's what I do when I'm accused of something I didn't do. Forget making a case or, you know, denying that I'd done it.

Denying hadn't helped me in the past.

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#24. Believing something existed and then finding out it didn't was like reaching the top of the stairs and thinking there was one more step.

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#25. Did you meet your soul mate? That always happens on the first day of school, right?'

'Oh God, Charlie, she's letting you read again! You went straight to the paranormal section, didn't you?

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#26. Sure, I hung out around Red Witch Bridge in the middle of the night, but that was in the cover of the trees with an urban legend and a baseball bat as weapons.

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#27. You smell like lemons.

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#28. It's not that I think I'm ugly, I just don't think about what I look like. I don't live out there. If I had my way, I wouldn't blook like anything at all. I would be a free-floating consciousness that can also somehow draw. I don't care how I look. I don't want to care.

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#29. Creators shouldn't feel this way about their fans. I shouldn't want them to disappear. They're the reason I have . . . the reason I have anything.

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#30. I'm so tired. I'm tired of anxiety that twists my stomach so hard I can't move the rest of my body. Tired of constant vigilance. Tired of wanting to do something about myself, but always taking easy way out.

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#31. Sometimes I think people take reality for granted.

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#32. Everyone's interesting if you stare at them long enough.

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#33. You found me in a constellation.

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#34. No, you're not a bad person," he said. "And Richter isn't a bad person, and I'm not a bad person. We're just people, and people sometimes do stupid things.

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#35. Do you do this all the time?' he asked.

'No,' I said. 'Just today.'

He smiled.

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#36. I realized everyone around me was wearing a uniform. Black pants, white button-down shirts, green ties. Gotta love the smell of institutional equality in the morning.

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#37. He remembers you," said June, and my stomach gave an odd stunted flop.
"Remembers me?"
"The girl who wanted to set the lobsters free. That was the day we left for Germany. I was shopping for a few last-minute things, and he wanted to talk to you. He liked your hair.

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#38. Our neighbors turned to stare at us, because Miles Richter laughing was one of those things that the Mayans had predicted would signal the end of the world. He wasn't particularly loud about it, but it was Miles laughing, a sound no mortal had ever heard before.

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#39. You know a school is run by stuck-up sons of bitches when it doesn't even have a bike rack.

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#40. My body gets excited without my permission, and it's not okay. It's out of control. I don't like out of control, but I like Wallace.

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#41. Was everything made up? Was this whole world inside my head? If I ever woke up from it, would I be inside a padded room somewhere, drooling all over myself?

Would I even be myself?

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#42. There is no force in high school more powerful than one person's blunt disagreement.

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#43. I'm not saying you can't do writing, just do some writing that you can build a career on. Creative writing isn't going to get you anywhere.

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#44. In a weird way, it felt like he belonged here. He belonged in the land of phoenixes and witches, the place where things were too fantastic to be real.

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#45. You are never as great or as pitiful as you think you are.

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#46. Do you think the lobsters in the tank try to help the other lobsters? Is that why they pile up like that? Or is it just for company, because they know they're all doomed? Better

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