Lynne Rae Perkins Quotes

#1. I felt ten years old and a thousand years old, but I didn't know how to be my own age. I had never felt that way before, but now I feel like that a lot.

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#2. His fingertips lightly and unintentionally grazed her face and her ears, and Debbie's don't-get-in-trouble self felt itself making room for her alert-alert-something-new-is-happening self.

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#3. She was thinking that the grass really could be greener on the other side of the fence. It depended on who wa standing in the grass. Maybe you had to go take a look

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#4. Lenny's face was smiling, too. For a minute they were both ten years old. Time travel in real life.

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#5. Maybe the grass is greener on the other side depends who was standing in it. Sometimes you have to go over there and look.

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#6. Many girls at school were infatuated with his shallow athletic splendor and his golden handsome features that were biologically inherited and had nothing to do with the kind of person he might actually be.

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#7. Step and land, step and land. That's all travel was. Throw in some running and a change of scenery. No big deal, right? And so, off he went. Off they went together.

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#8. A good story makes a journey go by more quickly. A really good story makes you forget you are even on a journey.

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#9. The trouble with being too careful about your wishes, though, was that you could end up with a wish so shapeless that it could come true and you wouldn't even know it, or it wouldn't matter.

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#10. What can you do? You pick yourself up. You pull yourself together. You move on.

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#11. He was thinking that maybe love was like starting a fire with two sticks. You've always heard that it's possible, but how likely is it?

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#12. I know I'm still young and there's a lot of time for things to happen, but sometimes I think there is something about me that's wrong, that I'm not the kind of person anyone can fall in love with, and that I'll always just be alone.

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#13. Their secrets inadvertently sidestepped each other, unaware, like blindfolded elephants crossing the tiny room.

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