Teri Terry Quotes

#1. Seeing what scares you for what it is does not lessen the terror. It still has the power to break your heart, over and over again.

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#2. I was told very sternly at the hospital to avoid boys at all costs. Mess up your levels."
"Oh, they do that!" Amy laughs. "Probably best to leave them alone for a while. The secret, though, is to start with one you're not that bothered about."
What is the point in that?

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#3. Use the fear; feed the anger.

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#4. Past ties twist loyalties.

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#5. His closeness makes my heart beat faster, my skin tingle, my body want things it doesn't even know.

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#6. And wait for the bus in grey drizzle, arms folded tight around myself, shivering against cold that falls from the sky and sinks deep in my bones.

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#7. You, my dear, are getting curiouser and curiouser. Like Alice down the rabbit hole, nothing is as it appears.

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#8. It is one thing to ask questions; what do you do with the answers?

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#9. Turn around? No. Keep going, it's the only way to make sure I don't end up going back and forth.

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#10. Simple is hard enough. Who needs complicated?

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#11. Truth is freedom. Freedom is truth.

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#12. Failure is not an option.

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#13. Never forget who you are.

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#14. He finds a tissue in his pocket and holds it out. I press it against my lip. Pull it away and look at it. Bright red, though not much of it.
I've had worse.
Have I?

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#15. As the sun shines down to melt the ice of another winter, to summon spring wildflowers from the earth; as the sky darkens with sudden, drenching showers before the sun returns, I know that both pain and joy are needed for life to grow.

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#16. It doesn't look much from the outside. But what you get outside is often like that. People, especially, can be so different from what you can see that you'd never guess what goes on in their secret places. What they are capable of.

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#17. But soon I forget all they are being and doing and saying, and stare out the window.

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#18. No. I remember. So long as I don't think about it too much, my hands and feet take over; some memory locked into muscle that my brain has nothing to do with.
I know how to drive. And I'm better at it than he is.

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#19. To form something greater than the sum of its parts.

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#20. I almost gasp out loud when I realise: Who I am is what I choose to do. Just like Mum. Who she is, at her core, is made up of all the decisions she makes.

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#21. Like Aiden said: how can you truly love somebody when you don't know who they really are?

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#22. Pain can kill, all on its own: the body goes into shock and shuts down.

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#23. I have both been given and taken so many identities, but at last I am beginning to grow into my one true name.
This was the gift my mother gave to me: Hope.

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#24. Caring for someone is never a bad thing, even if it doesn't work out

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#25. And think about things, I do: late that night. All through school the next day, wandering to classes, unaware of my surroundings.

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