Tammara Webber Quotes & Sayings

#1. Chivalry isn't really dead you know." "Oh?" "Nah. That guy's just an asshole.

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#2. Woman, if i was straight, i would steal you from him so hard.

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#3. No offense to hot girls everywhere- but newsflash- there are hot girls everywhere.

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#4. He'd better stay the hell away from you or I will whip out the lawnmower on his ass," she declared.

"That move's not for ass use," I joked

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#5. Maybe I'm exactly where I should be after all.

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#6. I wondered when I would stop feeling like such a clueless twit for that misplaced trust.

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#7. We were encouraged to propose safetyprevention suggestions, and write them all down - locking doors, walking or exercising with a friend, wearing shoes that don't hinder running. Erin's suggestion of "Avoid assholes" was popular.

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#8. It's not that i don't want you. I lied, earlier, when i said i was protecting you. I'm protecting myself. I don't want to be your rebound, Jacqueline."
"Then why are you assuming that role? It's not what i want, either."
"What am i gonna do with you?"
"I can think of a couple things.

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#9. People rarely said what they thought, or revealed how they felt. No one was honest.

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#10. I'd basically described myself: a quiet, studious bookworm who would go to bed at a decent hour. A non-partier who wouldn't bring a parade of boys through our room, or make it the floor headquarters for beer pong.

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#11. What the hell is it about brooding guys that's attractive to women, anyway? I've become one since Dori's call three weeks ago, and it's made me more of a chick magnet. I shouldn't be surprised - being a dick never hurt my appeal before.

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#12. I dreamed about the future because that's what people persuade you to do when you're a kid, but that's the biggest lie of all
that you can plan. Reality is, you have no fucking clue what's coming and neither do they.

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#13. I wanted to put on earphones and plug into her and know what she was hearing when her fingers performed.

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#14. LUCAS: I've done a couple from memory but they aren't the same. Can't quite get the shape of your jaw. The line of your neck. And your lips. I need to spend more time staring at them and less time tasting them.
ME: I can't say i agree with that notion.
LUCAS: More of both, then.

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#15. As we lay in the semi-dark hours later, we faced each other, sharing his pillow. I'd never felt more connected to anyone.

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#16. There's something uncontaminated about her, and I don't even mean sexually or whatever. I mean the way she is, at her core. Like when you wake up and the world has been blanketed by snow overnight, and not a single footstep or tire track has spoiled the untouched perfection of it.

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#17. I say I don't believe in love, but that's not really true - love is just the name of an emotion. It's like on steroids. It's lust with ethics.

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#18. His blood? From his nose?"
I nodded, disgusted.
"Good girl." His arms slid around me again. "God, you 're so fucking amazing.

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#19. I don't believe there's a reason for everything, and having faith doesn't mean I'm blind. I believe people make poor choices. I believe bad things happen to good people. I believe there's evil in the word that I will never understand, but will never stop fighting.

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#20. Graham runs a hand through his hair and takes a deep breath. Finally, with a determined scowl, he crosses the room. His hands grip my shoulders. "We are not," his voice is a gentle tremor, "breaking up

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#21. I thought about texting Lucas, but what would i say? That i'd tossed and turned all night, thinking of his hands on me?

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#22. Having pretty much burned every bridge he crossed, our friendship was like a malfunction of his usually deficient people skills.

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#23. What do you say when the feelings don't fit into words?

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#24. As for being somewhere you're not supposed to be
Maybe you're here for a reason, or there is no reason.

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#25. I tilt her chin up and bend my face to hers, silently praising every woman who's had a hand in making her who she is.

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#26. I could never be afraid of you.

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#27. And then she told me she didn't want someone who needed her in order to be a better guy. She wanted someone who was better by himself, with or without her.

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#28. But even if you have what everyone else wants- if it isn't what you want, it isn't what you want

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#29. I was sure you 'd dropped the class, which made me selfishly ecstatic. Without even knowing i was doing it, i started looking for you on campus.

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#30. Over the past three years, we'd become each other's habit. And though he'd broken his habit of me when he walked away, I'd not broken my habit of him.

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#31. She's like a wind-up monkey that winds itself.

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#32. Ooh, J, he's got ink too."
"Just when i didn't think he could get any hotter ...

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#33. Lucas was fifteen minutes late to class on Friday, and we had a pop quiz first thing - which he missed. My first thought was how irresponsible it was to miss a quiz ... and then I remembered that I missed the midterm. I couldn't exactly point any fingers.

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#34. The night we met - I'm not like that guy." His jaw was rigid.
"I know tha - " He placed a finger over my lips, his expression softening.
"So I don't want you to feel pressured. Or overpowered. But I do, absolutely, want to kiss you right now. Badly.

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#35. Growing up with my dad taught me to either lie like a pro or not bother.

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#36. Alarmed, I realized what my visceral reaction implied: jealousy. Over a guy I barely knew, with whom I'd exchanged more saliva than sentences.

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#37. What I can't do anywhere is be with you.

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#38. I wanted to tell you that I just
I miss you. And maybe that sounds ridiculous
like we barely know each other, but between the emails and texts and ... everything else, I felt like we did. Like we do. and I miss
I don't know how else to say it
I miss both of you.

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#39. I've heard people say My heart stopped - which of course isn't possible unless you've just died - but I now understood where the perception might originate.

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#40. I don't know why it's so hard for me to say those three words. Most guys throw it around like breath, like bait.

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#41. That's how they say it: He loves you in his own way. Well, what about my way? What if I need for him to love me in my way?

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#42. You may be the only one who'll see through all my bullshit and help me try to be something more, something better."
I stare at our intertwined hands. "I don't want to help you try to be anything. I want someone who's already something more. On his own. With or without me.

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#43. I fight the urge to enjoy anything too much in front of him, actually, and now that I'm aware of that fact, my brain gets hung up on why that is.

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#44. Erin and I spent four hours shopping for dresses and shoes Tuesday night. She was going all out in her intention to make Chaz regret any decision he'd made that didn't include worshipping at her feet.

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#45. But girls willing to share your bed don't equal girls willing to put up with your random crap moods, listen to your exhaustive legal opinions, or support your life's goals the way someone who loves you would.

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#46. Plenty of girls saw college as some sort of exploratory period.

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#47. Smugly on the other side of Kelly, our pianist, who'd opted

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#48. I never wanted you to get hurt, but i wanted to take you from him.

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#49. It's my baby. I can't just let her give it away -

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#50. Whenever I appeared to have won an argument, Mom would say something like, 'Even broken clocks are right twice a day.

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#51. If someone had asked, "How does this compare to kissing Kennedy?" I would have answered, "Who?

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#52. Oh No! My wings are effed up!

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#53. Good God, what did he not remember?

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#54. You're so beautiful.

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#55. I've come to ask how you do it. How you feel what I know you're feeling and then walk away like that.

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#56. I'm gonna make that asshole gnaw his own hand off that night, dammit.

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#57. I'm a hopeful romantic who adores novels with happy endings, because there are enough sad endings in real life.

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#58. Every moment was a before and an after. Every moment was a now to be lived.

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#59. I was more scared than I let on, but that was nothing new.

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#60. I've started researching online journals for the project. Thanks for decoding Dr. Heller's notes before sending them to me. If you'd have forwarded them to me without a translation, I'd be searching for a tall building/overpass/water tower from which to yell goodbye cruel world.

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#61. The exception is I'm not going away. Don't ask me to do that ever again.

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#62. Alcohol removes inhibitions. It doesn't trigger criminal violence where there was none before.

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#63. Jackie?"
"It wasn't your fault.

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#64. I'm trying to protect you. From myself. I don't do ... " he swung a finger back and forth between us" ... this.

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#65. He's already chasing you. Now all you have to do is keep running. Just not too fast.

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#66. But just because you're strong and resilient doesn't mean you never need someone to be there for you, to take care of you.

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#67. Love is not the absence of logic
but logic examined and recalculated
heated and curved to fit
inside the contours of the heart

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#68. The world an author creates and the characters that inhabit it may come from her imagination alone, but few authors can wrestle the story that emerges into shape without help.

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#69. There are a million ways to lose someone you love.

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#70. He was in a slow-motion mood-one of my favorites, though it meant i'd be driven crazy before we were done.

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#71. Testing her sexuality, she thinks she's caught a beautiful fish, when in reality, she's netted a shark.

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#72. Really, he could have just punched me in the stomach, because my brain refused to comprehend the words he was saying. A physical assault, it might have understood.

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#73. I watched him pull his t-shirt over his head.
I could put hin on replay doing that and watch it all day ...

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#74. Too much quiet left me depressed and consuming condiments for meals.

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#75. I'm not blaming you-or her. Neither of you asked for what he did-there's no such thing as asking for it. That's a fucking lie argued by psychopaths and dumbasses. Okay?

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#76. I was holding the door for several girls in front of you, and I waited for you to catch up. When you reached me, you looked pleased, and a little surprised. Unlike the others, you didn't expect the door to be held for you by some random guy. You smiled up at me and said, 'Thank you.

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#77. Maybe i'm exacly where i should be after all.

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#78. I'd always defined jealousy as coveting what someone else has.

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#79. You have a freckle here," he whispered, sweeping his tongue over a spot just under my jaw. "It drives me crazy every time you 're above me. I just want to do this ... " The jentle draw of his mouth pushed me over the edge, and my knees tightened around his hips as i rocked against him.

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#80. no cray,Daddy he whisper

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#81. Bonus: I now knew what Erin meant by lickable abs.

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#82. And I'm okay, I really am, most of the time. But sometimes, I'm just not.

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#83. And I want nothing more than to wrap myself around him and be carried away to a place where I don't have to think. A place where there's no guilt or fear, no right or wrong, no divine punishments or senseless accidents or indeterminate states.

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#84. I stare into his eyes, a slight smile pulling at my mouth, and I see myself as he sees me. I feel loved, and scared, and hopeful. I feel found. And I think, Here is the beginning of my faith. Here is my forever. Right here. Right here.

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#85. Sorry, boyfriends everywhere - you're doomed to sit through an hour and forty-seven minutes of syrupy drivel. The payoff? Between my face, Tadd's abs and Quinton's biceps, your girl will be ready for takeoff as soon as the credits roll. You're welcome.

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#86. I had become Harry Potter. Except I was thirteen and not magic, and my destiny, whatever it was, held no profound purpose.

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#87. I try to be rational and suppress the hope that this is for real, but hope has a way of closing its eyes to reason and it just keeps growing.

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#88. One of the reasons AA works is that the individual makes the decision not to drink, one day at a time. One hour. One minute even. You can do that, right? One minute? ... There's one minute. You're stronger than you know, Mrs. Alexander.

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#89. His breath in my ear, he ran his tongue along the curved edge, sucking the fleshy lobe and my small diamond stud into his mouth, and my eyes drifted closed while I babbled a weak sound of longing.

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#90. I kept my eyes open on the ride home. Peeking over Lucas's shoulder, i watched the scenery fly by-and it was exhilarating, not frightening. I trusted him. I had since that first night, when i let him drive me home.

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#91. I'm going to arrange you, if that's okay?"
I swallowed. "Uh ... sure." My hands were clutched to my ribcage, my shoulders hunched almost to my ears. What, this isn't how you want me positioned?

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#92. I didn't change Reid Alexander. I just helped him uncover who he always was, at his core.

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#93. Luck could be earned and created. It could be discovered. It could be regained. After all - I'd found this girl. I'd found my future. I'd found forgiveness. My mother would have been happy for me ...

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#94. Brooke?"
I puff out a sigh. "For chrissake, Reid, who do you think it is? And haven't you put me into your contacts yet?"
"Yeah ... It just says Satan, though, and I forgot I'd assigned that title to you.

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#95. Rather than raising his voice like everyone else, he leaned close to my ear and asked, "Dance with me?" I felt his warm breath and inhale the scent of his aftershave -something basic and male.

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