Jennifer Harrison Quotes

#1. During my completely soul-shredding midlife crisis at the age of twenty-eight, I felt sure I had peaked too soon.

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#2. His billiards lessons regarding double kisses, push strokes, butt caps, creeping angles of incidence, and snatches began to sound like flirting.

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#3. Facebook is that successful guy you're supposed to want to date, but you can't keep your mind off the beautiful freak in the corner. Twitter is my freak.

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#4. I have never been the fiddle-dee-dee, carefree Scarlett O'Hara his fantasies imagined. I'm more of the Civil War version - tired, hard, and determined.

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#5. Los Angeles can never be convinced to fight fair, but the town has an insidious way of tempting back its most devoted followers.

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#6. My heart had a crush on him from the moment we met, but it was faint, and the rest of me stubbornly refused to play along.

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#7. There is no question that Los Angeles expects its long-termers to survive the inevitable and chronic ass-kickings alone.

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#8. Having two women - one who can't know about the other, and one who must be trusted not to destroy his life - is clearly difficult for him.

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#9. Malibu: With sounds of waves crashing, and the ocean at the doorstep, you feel like you are hours away from civilization. And with L.A. traffic, YOU ARE.

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#10. I am not being overly harsh. Overtly hostile, yes, but exactly the right amount of harsh.

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#11. Since Ireland's independence declaration was a century older, I could not be sure if his self-evident truths meant as much as they would in America.

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#12. Many of the women in Los Angeles are part of the notorious gang culture, and they will forever have my gratitude for, you know, letting me live.

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#13. Holy crap, my heart was arrogant to believe her spotless track record could stay that way.

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#14. He thinks my look is pin-up sexy, and thus I am perfectly obliged to believe that delusion too.

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#15. I had to free myself from my devotion to him... to us... without losing my ability to believe in love.

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#16. As I prefer to see it, there has never been an epic love story that involved significant amounts of self-control.

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#17. In the apocalyptic environment that is Los Angeles on fire, we should all be making a point to have a lot of sex, but no one seems particularly motivated. They need leaders, and sadly I am not up for the task.

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#18. When my heart is better, less shrunken, I will throw her out there to love again, without hesitation, even knowing what we know.

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#19. The word bollocks seems strong, punk rock, and imposing, but in reality, bollocks is always too tame to make much of an impact.

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#20. After three hundred miles of musicians and endless tequila shots, the tour bus driver had never been more eager to dump us in the middle of another small, sober town.

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#21. The post-traumatic shock from living in Florida never goes away, yet part of me is forever attached to that eccentric, heat-infested swamp.

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#22. Love: the impossible combination of being IN the deep end and being OFF the deep end.

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#23. My voice falls into Southern drawl when I am tired, drunk, or in trouble. Too often, my accent is attacked by all three of these realities.

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#24. I have always been quite good at falling in love, but I don't pretend to know anything about literal happily ever afters.

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#25. Twitter has the sustained ability to not get all touchy when I forget to "favorite" and thus had me at the first entirely inappropriate tweet flung my way.

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