Melissa Keil Quotes

#1. And, anyway it's not always about fitting in."
"It's not?"
"Nope. Sometimes, it's about reading your environment real quick, and then finding the bits that fit you.

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#2. I guess it's easy to dream about things that are abstract, or impossible.

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#3. It feels just right that he's here, one of the pages ripped from my story, slotted back exactly where it's supposed to be.

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#4. I guess some people enter your orbit and get stuck, and there's nothing either of you can do about it.

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#5. I realize that Camilla is out very own statistical anomaly, an outlier that no one seems to know where to place.

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#6. I can't help but think that, comic book-wise, this whole episode would probably fill nothing but a couple interlude frames; like that moment where a character has a sepia-tinted dream before crashing back into their real story.

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#7. No one calls me Sammy. My mother occasionally throws a "Samuel", but I am, and have always been, just Sam. Sammy is a name for five-year-olds and game show hosts and Shinny Happy People.
I am, definitely, not a Sammy

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#8. Mum looks like someone has told her that Santa will be shortly arriving with that guy from Pride and Prejudice in tow.

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#9. I'm operating on Tiny Teddies and hope

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#10. So. Are we concocting some elaborate scheme where we pretend to be twins to get your parents back together?

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#11. But I've been kidding myself that this thing I feel for her is just a crush. No matter what I'd heard or read or seen in a movie - no one ever said it was supposed to suck so badly.

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#12. Every now and then, if I allow my mental focus to slip, I catch myself looking at her face and forgetting how to breathe. I guess these things take time to fade completely.

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#13. My lungs feel like they're imploding. Every part of my body feels like it's trying to run, screaming, from every other part of my body.
And then, apparently, the warm-up is over.

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#14. No-one knows anything. Anyone who tells you they do ... is full of bollocks.

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#15. He looks me up and down blankly. 'So. No Speedos?'
'I left them in my other bag with my muscle shirts and tanning spray. You?

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#16. I think I would give up movies for this feeling.

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#17. Dude, innapropriate. Don't talk about your friend's Dad's junk.

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#18. I fall asleep with the sound of her voice echoing in my head, and a feeling in my chest like someone is scooping my heart out with a spoon.

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#19. The angst about doing is more terrifying than the actual leap.

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#20. Maybe the earth will continue to spin, and the stars won't implode for a bazillion more years, but I know, with a certainty my stupid brain has done its best to ignore, that this moment - right here, with the people I love most - is not going to last.

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