Cabel And Janie Quotes

#1. Janie calls Cabel.
"Hi, uh, Mom," she says.
Cabel snorts. "Hello, dear. Did you make it through the blizzard?"
"Yeah. Barely." Janie grins into the phone.

Lisa McMann

#2. Ambition is the death of joy.

Marty Rubin

#3. Break my face, my back, my arms, my neck. But please don't break my heart.

Sarah Bettens

#4. Cabel flicks his fingers at her, spraying her with water. Grinning. "Sure. I think I'm pretty lucky. I bet blind people have great sex. I'll even wear a blindfold so it's fair." He bumps his hips lightly against hers.

Lisa McMann

#5. Janie: So you're a double agent? Cabel: Sure.That sounds sexy.

Lisa McMann

#6. So what, then? Pete? Clyde?"
Cabel rolls over, pretending to sleep.
"It's Fred, isn't it?"
"Janie. Stop."
"You named your thing Janie?" She giggles.
Cabel groans deeply. "Go to sleep.

Lisa McMann

#7. Then I should have chosen a career for myself, I should have been a sluggard and a glutton, not a simple one, but for instance, one with sympathies for everything sublime and beautiful.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#8. An hour of play is worth a lifetime of conversation.

Plato

#9. Georgie was extra. She was the fourth wheel. (On something that only needed three wheels. The fourth wheel on a tricycle.)

Rainbow Rowell

#10. I shattered that memory by going back there. Without realizing it until it was too late, I replaced that memory with the emptiness of that day.

J.A. Redmerski

#11. Janie: Did you ever sell drugs?
Cabel: Yes. Pot. Ninth and tenth grade. I was, uh ... rather troubled back then.
Janie: Why did you stop?
Cabel: Got busted, and Captain made me a better deal. Janie: So you've been a narc since then? Cabel: I cringe at your terminology.

Lisa McMann

#12. Or maybe she wants to believe that he found her on purpose. Even Janie can have her dreams.

Lisa McMann

#13. It's the touching they both long for. The holding. Spent their whole lives, each without any.

Lisa McMann

#14. If somebody wants to have plastic surgery, more power to them. I think there's a point where you go overboard.

Shannen Doherty

#15. I lurve you, circus freak," Cabel says.
It almost hurts to hear him say that.
I lurve you, too, you big lumpy monster man," Janie says.
That hurts even more to say.

Lisa McMann

#16. The phone rings.
"Asshole," she mutters. She picks it up.
"Will you let me explain?"
"No." She hangs up.

Lisa McMann

#17. Do you think if the stamp-act is repealed, that the North Americans will be satisfied?

Peter Thomas

#18. 10:31pm
Janie drives home slowly, windows rolled down, hand ready on the parking brake. She takes Waverly. Past Cabel's house.
Nothing.
She falls into bed when she gets home.
There are no notes, no phone calls, no visits. Not that she was hoping for anything of course. That bastard.

Lisa McMann

#19. Nobody else can destroy you except you; nobody else can save you except you. You are the Judas and you are the Jesus.

Rajneesh