Going Too Far Jennifer Echols Quotes

#1. Consider yourself hugged. Virtual hug.
I felt the virtual hug, warm and snug.

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#2. Sam was creative and dedicated, but his wasn't the plodding bright-and-early work ethic of the morning person, like mine. It was the crazy creative burst of the night owl, long dark hours of despair before dawn.

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#3. Or that I couldn't stand to watch anything bad happen to you, because it was like it was happening to me too. Is that love?

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#4. You can draw!" I exclaimed.
"Yeah," his voice echoed from the kitchen.
"I mean really draw [ ... ]"
"I told you I would major in art, hypothetically."
"Yeah, but I thought the bullshit you fed me about lifting up the human spirit was compensation for not being able to draw.

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#5. And I was bitter. Bitterness and I were old friends by now, but at the moment bitterness was trying to go down my bra in public.

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#6. How did we get to this place where we had to be tough all the time and never said how much we loved each other?

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#7. Anybody who knows him, even all the girls, will tell you he's a great guy, and they'll do anything for him, right up until they want to kill him.

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#8. I turned to the clarinets. They were a resourceful lot.

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#9. And then my mom called, "Have fun on your date, Hayden!"
Another step down and I thought, Good.Mom is mistaken and has led Nick to believe I'm going on a date.
One more step down and I thought,Oh no,Mom has led Nick believe I'm going on a date!"

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#10. And the rest is happily ever After.

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#11. You owe me and you know what I want in return."
He scowled at me. "Not the pants."
I nodded gravely. "Give me your pants.

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#12. Stay away from her."
"Okay."
"Keep your hands off her."
"I'll try."
He scowled at me.
"I will," I said.

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#13. You love your music."
"I did when I was trying to shut everything out. Now I'm trying to let everything in.

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#14. I wanted to remind you that you do not allow me to deliver boats, as I have been known to crash them.

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#15. I don't think my memory of that night is ever coming back."
"Do you want me to hit you on the head with a coconut? It works on Gilligan's Island.

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#16. I should have run away from you and started college and gone on without you. But I would always have regretted it if I didn't give this a shot.
- Tiffany

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#17. But you can't live your life worried about dying all the time. If you do, you're dead already.

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#18. You had a bet. You couldn't lose a bet. If you had a choice between me and winning, you'll choose winning every time. It's still true.

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#19. I was vaguely aware that we'd been archenemies a few minutes before, and now he had me on my back on the sand.

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#20. And strangely, even though he still stared at the store, I felt like I had more self-control then he did right then.

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#21. Suggesting that you do yoga was my subtle way of telling you to go to hell.

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#22. You are the prettiest pilot I ever saw.'
'Hey.' Grayson walked forward. 'Do you see me standing here in a tux? Get in line.

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#23. I brushed some imaginary lint from my shirt, or touched my cleavage to catch his eye, depending on your perspective.

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#24. You've gone far away to a place with no horses and very little grass, and you're studying how to write a story with a happy ending. If you can write that ending for yourself, maybe you can come back.

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#25. That is the way convince people. Or change them and prevent them from hurting whether themselves and others. Art is the most effective form of communication.
You can use it to lift the human spirit and make them understand that there is more to life than their next drug use.

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#26. But when I was a little girl, my mom always told me to be nice to everybody, no matter what they looked like or how they treated me, because I never knew who might be an angel God had sent to Earth in disguise.

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#27. If she can't stand the heat, she needs to stay out of the kitchen," Mr. Rush insisted.
"Or you could air-condition the kitchen," I said. "Or at least install a fan to ventilate some of the fumes.

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#28. Son," he said, "you monkeyed up.

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#29. Tell me about your project." "It's a surprise," I said loudly over the siren. "I don't like surprises." No surprise there.

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#30. Finally he said, "I am sorry for it. His mama didn't teach him right."
My mama didn't teach me right either, I thought, and I don't act that way. I kept rocking.

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#31. Can you put your hands on my crotch?"
"Why, hell no, I cannot." I didn't remember anything like this happening in Pride and Prejudice.

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#32. Then he spooned hot against me, draping his arm over my waist.

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#33. What do you write in those forms?" I asked.
"Nothing. I just do this to look threatening.

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#34. I held the dubious honor of being the one person who could make cool, collected Nick lose his temper.

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