Top 100 Jennifer Echols Quotes
#1. If she can't stand the heat, she needs to stay out of the kitchen," Mr. Rush insisted.
"Or you could air-condition the kitchen," I said. "Or at least install a fan to ventilate some of the fumes.
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#2. I was vaguely aware that we'd been archenemies a few minutes before, and now he had me on my back on the sand.
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#3. And strangely, even though he still stared at the store, I felt like I had more self-control then he did right then.
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#4. I brushed some imaginary lint from my shirt, or touched my cleavage to catch his eye, depending on your perspective.
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#5. That is the way convince people. Or change them and prevent them from hurting whether themselves and others. Art is the most effective form of communication.
You can use it to lift the human spirit and make them understand that there is more to life than their next drug use.
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#6. You had a bet. You couldn't lose a bet. If you had a choice between me and winning, you'll choose winning every time. It's still true.
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#7. Tell me about your project." "It's a surprise," I said loudly over the siren. "I don't like surprises." No surprise there.
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#8. Then he spooned hot against me, draping his arm over my waist.
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#9. I held the dubious honor of being the one person who could make cool, collected Nick lose his temper.
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#11. Sam was creative and dedicated, but his wasn't the plodding bright-and-early work ethic of the morning person, like mine. It was the crazy creative burst of the night owl, long dark hours of despair before dawn.
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#12. Or that I couldn't stand to watch anything bad happen to you, because it was like it was happening to me too. Is that love?
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#13. And I was bitter. Bitterness and I were old friends by now, but at the moment bitterness was trying to go down my bra in public.
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#14. How did we get to this place where we had to be tough all the time and never said how much we loved each other?
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#15. Anybody who knows him, even all the girls, will tell you he's a great guy, and they'll do anything for him, right up until they want to kill him.
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#16. And then my mom called, "Have fun on your date, Hayden!"
Another step down and I thought, Good.Mom is mistaken and has led Nick to believe I'm going on a date.
One more step down and I thought,Oh no,Mom has led Nick believe I'm going on a date!"
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#17. You owe me and you know what I want in return."
He scowled at me. "Not the pants."
I nodded gravely. "Give me your pants.
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#18. I don't think my memory of that night is ever coming back."
"Do you want me to hit you on the head with a coconut? It works on Gilligan's Island.
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#19. Her dad turned to me. "You. Follow Me."
"Woof," I said.
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#20. When something awful happens, sometimes people get stuck.
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#21. And ever so faintly,I could hear Josh rapping to his posse's beat.I couldn't make out most of what he was saying, but I thought I caught the word prepubescent.
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#24. You think it hurts your feelings that girls talk about you behind your back, until they tell you to your face. And they each wanted a turn. Every time, it started with 'girlfriend' and ended with 'bitch.
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#25. I'll admit,I may have carried a torch for him all these years.He just blew it out.
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#26. Just be prepared," she said. "When you do come back to live with me, you are SO GROUNDED for calling me the chicken that crossed the road.
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#27. What did Kevin Ye get arrested for anyway? Didn't he steal a car?"
"He stole the driver's ed car."
I laughed. Then I saw how Adam was looking at me.
"He gave it back."
"They MAKE you give stuff back, Lori, after they arrest you for stealing it.
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#28. Yes, I was good at reading people. I studied them so I could put them in my novels.
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#29. And you're beautiful. You'd have to work pretty hard to mess that up.
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#30. Let me get this straight.Your lunchroom speech went a little something like this." I put my hands out on front of me like I was a Roman Orator enunciating for the crowd. "I, Nick Krieger,defender of women, would never denounce the crotch. I am above the crotch.
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#31. I squeezed the controls to brace myself so I wouldn't shiver with the chill of wanting. Normal people got that feeling when they quit smoking cigarettes. I had gotten it then too.
Normal people did not get that feeling when faced with danger.
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#32. He fumbled with something in his breeches. She had thought the past few minutes the most intense of her life, but they were nothing compared with the alarm and ashamed delight now rushing through her veins - until she realized he was only bringing out his pocket watch.
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#33. I love cops," he said. "It's like my life, but with all the boring parts taken out.
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#34. I'm not sure I like this. It has a slut-shaming flavor, like they really wanted to give me Biggest Ho.
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#35. Waiter, this is not the policeman I ordered. I wanted one with a lot less sauce.
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#38. You can't tell a seventeen-year-old anything. They think they're immortal. They don't listen. Seventeen-year-olds have to see it for themselves.
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#39. We're not talking about your life. We're talking about your writing. Your imagination. Your creativity. And it's time you learned there's a big difference between your writing and your life. To do it right, your writing takes an incredible amount of work. Your life takes more.
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#40. I saw myself exactly as he saw me.
And that made me angry.
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#41. You're toast."
I felt like toast, burning with anger inside my waterproof layers. "I am not," I insisted. "I might be lightly browned on one side.
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#42. Men always do that to women when they feel threatened. They tell everybody the woman must be giving out blow jobs because there's no way she could be successful otherwise.
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#43. If you drive down there," I said, "he'll just escape the other way. That's what he's counting on. You have to walk down there, point your gun at him, and yell at him in that charming way you have.
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#44. Let's go," I said.
"Go where?"
"On Lori's date with Parker."
Now he looked at me over the nerdy spectacles he wore for reading.
"I wasn't aware it was a double date. And you're not my type.
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#46. You're an escapee from the loony bin," I said. "You're the butt of every joke ever told. You might as well be the chicken that crossed the road.
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#47. Then he folded his arms on his chest, so his biceps strained at the sleeves of his t-shirt, courtesy of the arm curl machine.
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#48. Your lot in life? A lot is something you draw, like straws. It's chance. You didn't get this life by chance. You chose it on purpose. If you're dissatisfied from it, you can change it.
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#49. You're a beautiful girl If you show the slightest interest in Alec, he'll want to go out with you. I know I would.
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#50. I had wanted something from him. Even expected a confrontation. To be ignored was a sentence without a period.
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#51. Better you than Cameron " McGillicuddy grumbled. "I know where Cameron's been."
Sean snorted.
Cameron said "I already told you I did NOT come on to Lori.
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#52. His boots crunched behind me.
"And stop following me!" I yelled over my shoulder.
"I'm not following you.Stop walking in front of me.
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#53. Dad" I pleaded, "this is so [cuss word you never, ever say in front of your mother] ridiculous.
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#54. Too late I realized this sounded like a come-on. Yeah,Hayden, he would say,I want you to show me some-wink-stretches!-nudge nudge.
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#55. No tea for you. How could you do that to John? I got home from the beach at four this morning, and he shows up at eight, distraught, fully armed, waving his nightstick!
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#56. Talking about your feelings helps you let go of your anger. And it takes a lot of energy to be angry all the time.
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#57. I felt confident that she wouldn't find out what a chicken I was,because after the comp,if I hadn't gone off the jump,I would be dead of shame.And if I had gone off the jump,I would be just plain dead.
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#58. And somehow I had always resisted driving very slowly back and forth in front of his house. Willpower? No. I figured his front gate was equipped with security cameras and I would just be embarrassing myself. And this street was definitely not on the bus line.
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#59. I understand I can't have you. But I want to know you're in the world with me.
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#60. Nick was giving me the same look. And this time,instead of being taken aback or feeling squicky about it,my heart raced and my face grew hot. My body's response to the call of Nick.
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#61. Do you watch Cops on TV?"
"I love Cops," he said. "It's like my life, but with the boring parts taken out.
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#62. Maybe I could come over to your house again afterward and check on you? I raised my eyebrows to hint hint what I meant by checking on him.
With any luck his father would be as uninvolved and dismissive as he'd been tonight.Nick needed more yoga in his bedroom, and possibly a physical.
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#63. I know what you're thinking.Girlfriend has fallen out of the stoopid tree and bonked her head against every branch on the way down.
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#64. The TV said you should ignore bullies and they would stop harassing you. In practice this worked about half the time. The other half, you ended up with two tall boys shadowing you through a trailer park, their fingers taking little nips at your clothes, like dogs.
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#65. He pursed his lips and gazed at me reproachfully for throwing our seventh-grade history in his face,times two. back then he'd brought our tween-love Armageddon on himself by letting our whole class in on a secret while he kept me in the dark.
Not that i was bitter.
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#66. Also, just before the shift started tonight, I had walked to the drugstore across the street [ ... ] and used one of their perfume testers. Nothing too obvious or flowery, just a body spray with a hint of musk that said you admired your captor.
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#67. Disapproval flashed across John's face. I wondered whether no one was supposed to touch me while he was in uniform, either.
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#68. I remembered what Mr. Hall had told me when I first asked him for a lesson: the kids who watch planes are destined to be pilots.
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#69. On a date, you shared your deep thoughts with each other, but not that deep. We were eating sandwiches, for God's sake.
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#70. His fingers, frozen in midfidget on his good knee, said
PEOPLE AREN'T SUPPOSED TO ASK ME THAT.
Either that or
I HAVE JUST BEEN SHOT THROUGH THE PAPER SCREEN.
He wasn't bleeding.
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#71. You're not a whore. You're a chick who hasn't exactly grown up with every advantage, and you've learned to use what you've got. You don't do it on purpose. It's second nature. You act girly and helpless and make men think you're harmless.
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#72. But you are right, being stupid is not illegal. Otherwise half this town would be behind bars.
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#73. I like doing things that make me uncomfortable. I try not to have a comfort zone
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#74. And you told me the biggest lie of all. You told me you loved me," It was my turn to wince like he'd slapped me. "I don't remember saying that" "You would if it had been true. You would feel something
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#75. It was Gavin's turn to look perplexed. "You're from Tennessee?"
"Of course she's from Tennessee," Nick said."Why do you think we always make fun of her accent?"
Gavin shrugged. "Because it's there?
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#76. You've got me so whipped, I can't think of a single sarcastic thing to say."
"That makes me feel powerful and manly.
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#77. They'd moved behind the tree where I wouldn't have seen them unless I'd been looking for them (which I was). I almost pointed them out to Tammy, then decided against it. I didn't want to sound like a fifth grader: Wow, kissing!
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#80. He grinned at me and whispered, I'm going to kiss you now. It'll be a big one, so don't hit me.
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#81. No, I didn't remember the deer. Is the deer okay?'
'Fuck the deer. Hush now.
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#82. Your confidence in me is heartwarming.
Makes me want to return all the money I stole from the little old ladies and kick the heroin.
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#83. I should have run away from you and started college and gone on without you. But I would always have regretted it if I didn't give this a shot.
- Tiffany
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#84. He managed to find his way into my heart again and sabotage it from the inside.
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#85. You should never start something when you haven't finished the last thing. People feel used that way.
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#86. Love hurt. Honesty made it hurt worse, and I could hardly stand it.
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#87. I guess we both understood that our relationship was built entirely on witty repartee, and neither of us thought we could be witty on four hours of shut-eye.
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#88. Your love for me was a symptom that your brain hadn't developed.
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#89. Did you know the local tv channels broadcasts your 900 in an endless loop? It's a bunch of video want ads for snowmobiles, then some kind of school crap with Everett Walsh that nobody wants to see over and over,and then you.
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#90. I could have explained that I wanted to walk without Doofus to get some air. But it would be pretty unusual-one might even go as far as to say unheard of-for me to take a hike on a winter night when I was exhausted from boarding all day.
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#91. Perhaps I should notify Ms. Abernethy of a safety hazard in her chemistry classroom.Obviously I had inhaled hallucinatory gas just before she kicked me out.
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#92. Almost immediately, his gaze flicked to Will and hardened into the dangerous, dead-eyed look. I saw myself through his eyes: dark hair, low-cut dress, with Will's arm around me.
"Oh, that temper." I said.
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#93. [ ... ] he had his hand on your -" He put his hand at waist level behind me, without touching me.
"He had his hand on my ass?"
"No," they said.
"Behind your back," Rashad said. "Like you're dating or something." He put his hand behind Skip's back. Skip hit him.
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#94. Davis is naturally a sweet-natured person.He's just been hanging around Nick and Gavin too long.Its a wonder they don't have him stealing candy from babies, or blasting rap music out of his car stereo in front of the retirement home.
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#95. Well, let's say you heard a fight in the boys' bathroom, and you broke it up. What would you do naturally if you could solve it your way?"
"I would run in the other direction. You really expect me to go in the boys' bathroom? Let them kill each other.
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#96. The nurse knocked softly on the door of the examining room and wheeled in a shiny silver tray displaying neatly arranged instruments of torture.
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#97. This was about to go very bad, because Adam was going to cry. "I miss you," he said, and his voice broke.
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#98. Why are you pretending to write, when I already know you're just doing that to intimidate me?
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#99. A boy who was such a threat to my mental health and happiness should not be so tall.
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