Top 100 Demetrios Quotes
#1. I really wish that the boy I'm in love with hadn't slept with three-quarters of the Creek View population, I said.
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#2. Your master is weak because he loves. You are strong because you hate. In the end you are winner, jinni-girl.
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#3. And maybe some people are like collages - no matter how broken or useless we felt, we were an essential part of the whole. We mattered.
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#4. I didn't want to go there, to those places he was describing, but I didn't want to be where he wasn't.
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#5. This, I think, is a little glimpse of what life could be like without my family. Home could be a place of laughter and love, a refuge. I'm filled with a terrifying weightlessness, like I've jumped off a cliff, but I know that if I don't look down, I'll be just fine.
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#6. Oh my God. Sky." Dylan stared at me, incredulous. "What?" I clutched at my dress, certain there was a big-ass rip in back or something. I pushed against her arm. "What?" "You just said love." "No, I didn't," I said quickly.
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#7. I feel trapped in this car with you and for the first time since we've gotten together, I want to be somewhere you're not.
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#9. Hate is a lot like love. It's warm and fills you up until every part of you is tingling to release it.
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#11. He looks like the kind of boy who would jump trains, strum guitars, and pass a joint.
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#13. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetrrs inside your skull
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#14. and I bet Skylar tastes sweet, like the powdered sugar on those little white doughnuts
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#15. Did he realize how he was sometimes able to say the perfect thing? Because if he was trying to get in my pants, it was working.
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#17. It's not every day you get to watch the two people you care most about in the world fall in love.
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#18. Kind of. Just - we don't know what happens when we die, right? I mean, maybe we go up to some perfect place in the sky, or maybe we turn to dust, or we're spirits and can still think and hear and go places. So talking to the person that's dead isn't crazy. They could be listening to you. Right?
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#19. I bet there's air-conditioning in heaven," I said. "Maybe it's just the perfect temperature - low seventies with a breeze?" Josh said.
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#20. Somehow, the pain and rage and confusion of the past eighteen years dissolves until all that is left is this one perfect moment; unscripted, unedited, it's ours and ours alone.
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#21. I love you to the moon and back - you read that in one of the picture books you brought to my house whenI was sick. It's becoming this thing with us. I melt. And you knew I would. You've got all these aces up your sleeve - a real card shark.
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#22. All of the jinn had refused to manifest a mattress for him, but the skag lay on the stone floor as though it were a king's bed.
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#23. My life was being planned in sentences that started with 'We' instead of 'I', yet it felt like the most natural transition in the world.
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#24. How was I going to get through life without Chris and Dylan right there, whenever I needed them?
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#25. It occurred to me that we were the same, in a way. Both of us treading water, pushing against forces we couldn't control.
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#26. Everything I was doing was like this chess game - full of second guesses, indecision, waiting.
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#27. His brown eyes filled with worry, and I wished, not for the first time, that my heart could love him in a different way. It would have been so easy. So nice.
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#28. The past is past. You tried to kill yourself. So what? I humped a couch in season twelve. We all have our skeletons.
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#29. After a lifetime of wanting to be loved, she didn't think she could bear it if it finally happened just before she was about to die.
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#30. Can't we just go in a dark corner like normal people who need to hide from highly trained evil killers?" she said.
"What, and let everyone imagine all the delightful things two jinn can do in the dark?"
"You're unbelievable."
"Thank you.
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#31. I'm the girl who's desperate to get out of her small town because if she doesn't she knows she'll die. She knows her soul will start to rot, like fruit gone bad.
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#32. He'd play dirty, break the rules - he didn't care. He wanted to stay in the game and this was the only way he knew how.
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#34. I thought of all the summer evenings I'd spent sitting in the chairs under the trees beside the trailer, reading books that helped me escape Creek View, at least for a little while. Magical kingdoms, Russian love triangles, and the March sisters couldn't have been further away from the trailer park.
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#35. Read it. Just - don't lose it. It ... belonged to a friend of mine.
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#36. Skylar's obviously into that Chris dude, I saw them in his sorry excuse for a truck, should have totaled it when I had the chance,
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#37. If my sister were a character in a Victorian drama, she would be the snobbish rich girl with a penchant for talking shit about everyone behind their fan.
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#38. My movie tastes are more boy meets girl, girl falls in love with boy, and everything's happy at the end, I said.
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#41. I'm telling you - guys like Gavin, they're real snakes in the grass.
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#42. I don't like seeing myself on camera." But that's not it
that sounds shallow, like I'm worried I'll look fat or something. "It's like somebody is walking on my grave. TV immortalizes you. The episodes are what my family would watch if I died.
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#43. To have a point, to have a purpose, was its own kind of freedom.
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#44. But I knew it was too much to wish that Creek View would be wiped off the face of the earth forever. The other towns needed us: you can't have the light without the dark, right? Maybe our darkness was necessary for other people to see their light.
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#47. I'm going to kill you, Calar. And it will hurt like hell. And then I will take that crown and put it on my head. Time's up, bitch.
It was something Malek would have said and it made her smile, pleased at the little bit of bad in her.
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#48. Sometimes it was hard to breathe, knowing how small my world could be. Maybe in San Francisco it wouldn't feel like the universe was conspiring to keep me in a bubble.
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#49. He looked down for a minute, and it was as if there was this huge mountain between us, and I hated that after everything we'd been through this summer, we'd have to admit that it was impossible. We were impossible.
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#50. I don't really know what it means to move on, but lately, with Sky, I'm starting to feel like I want to because when I look at her, I don't see you or the war or any of the shit in my head. I just see her, and it's like suddenly I can breathe again after holding my breath for so long.
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#51. You can't screw up your own suicide and then expect the universe to give you presents wrapped in the skin of a wonderful boy. That's just not the way it works.
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#53. Why is it that some people in the world get to wake up in beautiful houses with fairly normal parents and enough food in the fridge while the rest of us have to get by on the scraps the universe throws at us? And we gobble them up, so grateful. What the hell are we grateful for?
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#54. I tried not to read anything into his being there; things like this weren't serendipitous when you lived in the smallest town ever.
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#55. I'm starting to realize that she's my only real friend in the world right now. I can't lose that. I've tried so hard to play it safe with her, and I thought I was doing okay until I went all wounded warrior on her and ... fuck.
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#56. Everything - the moon, the fireworks, the fields - had an otherworldly beauty, and I shivered, greedy for these bits of loveliness the universe was throwing our way tonight.
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#57. If I were a real Creek View girl, the kind Josh liked, I'd be hammered right now, not thinking about my dead father.
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#58. If you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would you be?" I opened my mouth to say San Francisco or maybe Madrid - somewhere exotic. But what came out was, "Here. Right here.
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#59. I can't believe I only knew you for a year and a half - how can one person change you in two football seasons? But you did.
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#61. Here I went again, asking him out. But it felt like I didn't have any control. With him, I never knew what the hell I was gonna say or do.
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#62. Crap. Like I could just go out and buy a new one - Look at me, I'm so rich I can throw calculators around! I stood and picked it up, shook it. Still worked.
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#63. It was like the whole town was swimming in failure, but no one realized they were drowning.
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#64. I've never been somewhere I belonged, but there are places where I think I could be happy. Like San Francisco. Well, do art museums count? Because I feel like I belong in them.
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#65. To me, it felt like such a failure. I never thought my mom and I would get that low. I wasn't ready to admit defeat.
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#66. I needed to hear her voice because everything was getting dark in me and she's the only light I've found since all this shit happened. I just thought, if she would answer, if she would answer, maybe I could, I don't know, just tell her in the right way why I was so messed up.
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#67. Hanging out with Josh was like learning how to drive stick. It was hard enough just to start and then it was one stall after another. But somehow I always managed to crawl forward, just a little bit.
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#68. Gavin's a nice kid, but I'll tell you somthing: a guy like him - the kind who wants you to follow him around like a puppy dog - they're the ones you have to watch out for.
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#69. She was the roar and the whisper and the stillness. She was nothing. She was everything.
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#70. I will bury myself alive. I will cut my skin to shreds. I swear I will, I will. And I'll burn this fucking house down if it means I can cut you loose, be free, be without Gavin Davis.
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#71. He frowned, his voice softer. "I don't know if it's Josh or what, but you need to get the hell out, or I swear to God, you'll end up spending the rest of your life in this shithole, just like all those girls - " "You mean like me?" Dylan asked, her voice suddenly hard.
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#73. This night felt like a last hurrah, like we could blaze our brightest, at the apex of our insane adolescence. This was our Mardi Gras before the dark days of Lent.
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#74. I know you don't like me," Kes said to her. "And, frankly, I don't like you. But please do me the service of shutting the fuck up. I'm doing the best I can.
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#76. He doesn't know either." She stopped and faced me. "Have you ever thought that maybe you're helping him figure that out?
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#77. I had to tell him we were like a collage. Pieces that could be put back together in a new way, a better way. If I didn't say it now, I never would.
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#79. That's disgusting," he said. "It should be illegal to put Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and mint together." "Yes, because your combo of pineapple and Snickers is a real winner.
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#80. The shimmering bubbles of happiness that had been floating all around me popped one by one, the whole breathlessness of our summer becoming nothing more than old soap on a stained industrial carpet.
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#81. Maybe all those years when Josh was running around town, acting like an idiot, he was just trying to find a way to escape. Maybe that was what all of us were doing, in our different ways.
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#82. She held up her hand. My forgiveness after years of insults will only be given to you if you come out with me tonight. Hooking up with Josh is strictly optional, but encouraged.
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#83. I grabbed them and walked up to the glass door. He turned around, realizing his mistake, and I held them up. He shook his fist at the sky and started walking back, but I pulled open the door and ran out.
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#86. When you're a stupid girl in love, it's almost impossible to see the red flags. It's so easy to pretend they're not there, to pretend everything is perfect.
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#87. He smiled, and I made the mistake of looking into those eyes. They were epic. Blue blue blue.
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#88. You know those primitive tribal people who believed a camera could steal your soul? Turns out they were right.
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#89. She was a kept thing, shackled to a master who would never let her go, locked in a cage of dreams.
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#90. When the store was empty again, I buried my head in my hands. I hadn't realized how much Josh had been helping me get through the summer until he wasn't there anymore. I wanted him to ask me how the Sky was. And then I wanted him to make it stop raining.
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#91. Anytime someone tries to do the right thing, it's a terrible strategy.
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#92. What am I supposed to do when I'm bad for the one good thing in my life?
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#93. Away: that was the only command my body could respond to. Away Away Away.
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#94. How could someone hurt you so bad but you still wanted to hold him and tell him it was going to be okay?
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#95. Chris pointed to himself. "This is my Not-Convinced face." "This is my Shut-Up face." "This is my Oh-My-God-Sky-Is-Getting-It-On-With-Josh-Mitchell face," Dylan said, looking comically scandalized.
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#98. You have lascivious thoughts And keep them to yourself Words are your slaves Flesh quivers under your fingertips
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#99. My hands were sticky with glue, and I hummed along to Sia, playing in the background.
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#100. You knew that if you survived that accident, there's no way I could ever leave you again. Not unless I want your blood on my hands. You're lucky your gamble paid off. Now you can do or say whatever you want, can't you. You've got me right where you've always wanted me.
You win.
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