Melissa Jensen Quotes

#1. Alex was late. I was grateful. I was also incredibly nervous and I'd gotten mascara in my eye. I blinked a lot as I did a last check.

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#2. Truth (according to Edward Willing): People who rely on first sight are either lazy or deluded.

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#3. Guys generally need us to come with subtitles, cue cards, and liability waivers.

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#4. Make poverty, sickness, and death central issues in the contract," he says, "it's no wonder the divorce rate is fifty percent.

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#5. It's not the scar and it's abso-freakin-lutely not you."
I dropped my hand. "Yeah, right." I sagged against him a little. For being as little as he is, Frankie's really solid. "It's never me."
I felt his sigh against my shoulder blades.

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#6. One may hide cruel. One may even hide a certain amount of madness. One can never hide stupidity.

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#7. Truth: You have to talk to a boy-really talk,if you want him to see past the fact that you're not beautiful.
Truth: I'm not beautiful. Or much of a conversationalist.
Truth: I'm not entirely sure that the stuff behind the not-beautiful is going to be all that alluring, either.

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#8. Love is one of two things worth dying for. I have yet to decide on the second.

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#9. Not much good has ever been prefaced by variations of "Have a seat." I thought of headmasters' offices and electric chairs.

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#10. Is your nasty natural?" I heard myself asking. "Or did you get it implanted?

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#11. I went to stand next to him. He radiated heat. It was distracting.

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#12. Is love meant to make us feel like fools?

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#13. We only tell the secrets we secretly want not to be secret, right? And learn as much from what isn't told.

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#14. Promise me this: ... you will stand for yourself, especially in the times when no one seems interested in standing for you.

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#15. Frankie looks like he might break your heart a little. Daniel looks like he might rip it from your chest, still beating, and bite it.

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#16. Ella. If you don't learn to carpe the diem, you will be, while most certainly not Nobody, something less than a Somebody.

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#17. The Top Ten Things Every Girl Should Have the First Time
5. A guy who realizes it's a big deal for you, this time.
6. A guy who understands that it's a big deal every time.
7. A guy who tries to make it special. Every time.

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#18. I figured Maxine probably had bathroom trips preplanned and efficiently choreographed.

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#19. I figured anything Maxine Rothaus called rough was, in fact, vicious and lawless and inclined to eat its own young.

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#20. Love is one of the two things worth dying for. I have yet to decide on the second. It is most certainly not colorful fungus.

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#21. There,of course,was Alex. He wasn't watching Amanda.He was looking over her head, his bored gaze skimming over the room. Before I could turn away, it had found mine. He didn't smile; he certainly didn't wave.But he didn't look away.And I had absolutely no idea what to do.

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#22. Sometimes no matter how many eyelashes or dandelion seeds you blow, no matter how much of your heart you tear out and slap on your sleeve, it just ain't gonna happen.

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#23. Qui craint de souffrir, il souffre deja de ce qu'il craint."
"Who fears to suffer, already suffers what he fears.

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#24. You wanna know something," was Dad's refrain while we were growing up, "get a book." Of course,he predates Google, but it stuck with me.

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#25. Relationships are like Whack-a-Mole. You squash one annoying deformity and another one pops up in no time.

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#26. What is it about those two words - I'm sorry - that makes otherwise articulate guys into babbling idiots?

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