Laurie Elizabeth Flynn Quotes

#1. I want to be just fast enough for Zach to have to run to catch up, because if I stay ahead, I won't ever have to see his retreating back.

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#2. Because you were everything. You weren't one night, one experience I had to record for proof that it happened. You were so much more than that. I didn't write about you because I took it for granted that I would always have you.

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#3. I feel like the world just moves too fast for me to keep up.

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#4. Remember all the times you told me no? All the times you brushed me off when I tried to make you my girlfriend? I stuck around after that. And I'm sticking around now. You can't get rid of me that easily.

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#5. Always lift your chin up high when you did something wrong. Because you might know you did something wrong, but nobody else has to.

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#6. The doorbell rings and I sink into a heap on the carpet. With any luck, whoever is down there will just go away.
But I'm just starting to think nothing goes away, no matter how deep you try to bury it.

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#7. I sound like a monster, like somebody who doesn't care about anyone but myself. Maybe I am.

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#8. And her smile isn't fake. It's open and loving and I know she probably smiles like that at everybody, but it feels like that smile was meant just for me.

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#9. I feel fragile, like if somebody looked at me the wrong way I might shatter into a million pieces and never be whole again.

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#10. Bad Kitty. That's what Charlie said. I bite my lip hard enouth to draw blood and savor the metallic taste in my mouth.
If Charlie wants to think of me as just another pussy, he's dead wrong. Because I'm going to be the one cat that has more than nine lives.

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#11. That's your orgasm talking," I say. "You're not really in love with me."
"You can't tell me how I feel," he says. His voice gets quiet, trails off at the end. "I could be your boyfriend.

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#12. I feel the need to fill the silence, like it's my fault it's even awkward in the first place.

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#13. Friendship is an undiluted solution, something weakened by adding more to it.

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#14. I don't know how Angela will react to that, and this is why it's so hard telling the truth. People don't have a standard reaction. People aren't a chemistry experiment you can tinker with until the proportions are just right. People are terrifying that way.

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#15. I smile, bigger than I'm sure I ever have before, and his lips are on mine, and if this isn't the best kind of chemistry, I don't know what is.

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#16. Next Wednesday is part of our routine, another chance to spend lunch hour doing it somewhere else in Kim's immaculate house. Maybe on the white leather couch next time, the one she loves too much to even let me sit on.

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