James Dawson Quotes

#1. Bobbie wondered if that's how long you truly live for - until the last person who remembers you, until the final bouquet on your grave.

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#2. When you take away our bodies and our names, all that's left is the feeling. And the feeling is like warm honey.

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#3. Some people just shine a bit brighter than others and it's got nothing to do with what they look like.

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#4. She had that caged-animal stir-crazy look in eye that only someone who'd endured too much Jeremy Kyle and Loose Women got.

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#5. Lis felt the corners of her mouth turn up a little. She'd never had friends like this. Friends who wanted to see her flourish not fade. Their eager faces were like mirrors in which she could see herself more clearly.

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#6. You're never truly by yourself when you have a book in your bag.

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#7. Sadie was full of crap at the best of times, and in an institution where laxatives were traded like cigarettes in jail, that was really saying something.

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#8. She shared the burden of Laura's cruelty with the others and was less of a victim as a result. Maybe there was some kind of mathematical formula for it: vulnerability times mockery divided by support, or something.

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#9. It was funny, thought Lis, how everything seemed possible in the middle of the night. The fairy tales had seemed almost laughable at school. They weren't so funny any more.

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#10. Living with stress and secrets is both stressful and secretive.

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#11. When I was little, a year seemed like the longest thing in the world.

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