Top 100 Jennifer Echols Quotes
#1. I squeezed the controls to brace myself so I wouldn't shiver with the chill of wanting. Normal people got that feeling when they quit smoking cigarettes. I had gotten it then too.
Normal people did not get that feeling when faced with danger.
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#2. But, Erin. If you are trying to make a writing career for yourself, you will get rejected again and again and again. You must keep going. You must learn not to take no for an answer.
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#3. You can't tell a seventeen-year-old anything. They think they're immortal. They don't listen. Seventeen-year-olds have to see it for themselves.
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#6. Waiter, this is not the policeman I ordered. I wanted one with a lot less sauce.
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#8. I'm not sure I like this. It has a slut-shaming flavor, like they really wanted to give me Biggest Ho.
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#9. I love cops," he said. "It's like my life, but with all the boring parts taken out.
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#11. Yeah, I understood that last night at the wreck. Nothing says I love you like a dead body.
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#12. There was a reason I was so into yoga. I was high-strung(news flash!).
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#13. He fumbled with something in his breeches. She had thought the past few minutes the most intense of her life, but they were nothing compared with the alarm and ashamed delight now rushing through her veins - until she realized he was only bringing out his pocket watch.
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#14. My mistake was assuming that when I got to college, people would not be such assholes.
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#15. Let me get this straight.Your lunchroom speech went a little something like this." I put my hands out on front of me like I was a Roman Orator enunciating for the crowd. "I, Nick Krieger,defender of women, would never denounce the crotch. I am above the crotch.
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#16. Tiffany, this is Officer After, who arrested you. Officer After, this is Tiffany Hart, who doesn't remember you.
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#17. I feel like I've been through a lot in the past couple of years, But I've kept pretty stable. That's because I channel that emotion into performance. I can handle emotion as long as it's only a song. It works for me, and I don't want to change it. I don't have anything left for writing.
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#19. And you're beautiful. You'd have to work pretty hard to mess that up.
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#20. Yes, I was good at reading people. I studied them so I could put them in my novels.
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#21. It was better that we never apologized to each other. Then we'd be admitting that we were wrong and we owed each other something. That's where people got into trouble.
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#22. What did Kevin Ye get arrested for anyway? Didn't he steal a car?"
"He stole the driver's ed car."
I laughed. Then I saw how Adam was looking at me.
"He gave it back."
"They MAKE you give stuff back, Lori, after they arrest you for stealing it.
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#23. Just be prepared," she said. "When you do come back to live with me, you are SO GROUNDED for calling me the chicken that crossed the road.
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#24. Seeing him jogging at the park had cracked the window so I could peek into his soul. Seeing him with his friends threw the window wide open.
He was so nineteen.
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#25. I'll admit,I may have carried a torch for him all these years.He just blew it out.
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#26. Boys don't gossip."
"Pah! You don't know us as well as you think."
This was a disturbing prospect.
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#27. His boots crunched behind me.
"And stop following me!" I yelled over my shoulder.
"I'm not following you.Stop walking in front of me.
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#28. The Evil Twin was either Tracey or Casey Reardon. I wasn't sure which one, and no one else seemed to either. All we knew for sure was that the twins were evil. Or, one of them was evil and the other just looked the same.
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#29. He was a dork, but at least he was totally comfortable in social situations, like Dad. Comfortable, or oblivious, which amounted to the same thing.
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#30. When every other facet of my life was a mess, music stayed true as math.
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#31. Better you than Cameron " McGillicuddy grumbled. "I know where Cameron's been."
Sean snorted.
Cameron said "I already told you I did NOT come on to Lori.
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#32. There was no way he could ever be my hero when his first words to me were a command to keep things quiet.
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#33. I had wanted something from him. Even expected a confrontation. To be ignored was a sentence without a period.
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#34. You're a beautiful girl If you show the slightest interest in Alec, he'll want to go out with you. I know I would.
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#35. Your lot in life? A lot is something you draw, like straws. It's chance. You didn't get this life by chance. You chose it on purpose. If you're dissatisfied from it, you can change it.
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#36. Then he folded his arms on his chest, so his biceps strained at the sleeves of his t-shirt, courtesy of the arm curl machine.
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#37. Keep in mind that I have seen the answer key.I know what I'm supposed to say to stop you from hitting me.
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#38. You're an escapee from the loony bin," I said. "You're the butt of every joke ever told. You might as well be the chicken that crossed the road.
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#39. What he lacks in clarity, he makes up for in consistency.
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#41. Let's go," I said.
"Go where?"
"On Lori's date with Parker."
Now he looked at me over the nerdy spectacles he wore for reading.
"I wasn't aware it was a double date. And you're not my type.
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#42. Uhhhhh. Without answering,I turned and hurried toward the back of the room, eaving around bodies on yoga mats in the center of the polished wood floor, thinking unkind thoughts about well-meaning old people who wanted to push me into being successful.
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#43. If you drive down there," I said, "he'll just escape the other way. That's what he's counting on. You have to walk down there, point your gun at him, and yell at him in that charming way you have.
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#44. Even though Sean still held my head down I was the only one who thought to ask
"Who's driving the boat?"
Over the motor I heard girls screaming at us the instant before we crashed.
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#45. I hoped to lose myself so the day would effectively be over, and I would have no time between now and seven a.m. to worry about what would happen tomorrow ...
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#46. Men always do that to women when they feel threatened. They tell everybody the woman must be giving out blow jobs because there's no way she could be successful otherwise.
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#47. You're toast."
I felt like toast, burning with anger inside my waterproof layers. "I am not," I insisted. "I might be lightly browned on one side.
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#48. I saw why Hunter had looked so horrified at the idea of me staying in his house. The walls were covered in glossy posters of fast cars and movie starlets wearing thongs.
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#49. I saw myself exactly as he saw me.
And that made me angry.
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#50. We're not talking about your life. We're talking about your writing. Your imagination. Your creativity. And it's time you learned there's a big difference between your writing and your life. To do it right, your writing takes an incredible amount of work. Your life takes more.
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#51. 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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#52. I turned to the clarinets. They were a resourceful lot.
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#53. 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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#54. 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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#55. 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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#56. 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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#57. 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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#58. 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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#60. I held the dubious honor of being the one person who could make cool, collected Nick lose his temper.
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#61. What do you write in those forms?" I asked.
"Nothing. I just do this to look threatening.
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#62. Then he spooned hot against me, draping his arm over my waist.
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#63. 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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#64. 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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#65. 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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#67. 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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#68. 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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#69. 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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#70. 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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#71. I brushed some imaginary lint from my shirt, or touched my cleavage to catch his eye, depending on your perspective.
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#72. 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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#73. Suggesting that you do yoga was my subtle way of telling you to go to hell.
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#74. 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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#75. 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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#76. When something awful happens, sometimes people get stuck.
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#77. Oh wait, I already fell.' He touched the tip of my nose with his finger. 'For you
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#78. You think it hurts your feelings that girls talk about you behind your back, until they tell you to your face. And they each wanted a turn. Every time, it started with 'girlfriend' and ended with 'bitch.
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#79. That's stupid. I said no because you don't love me.
- John
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#82. But Hunter did sneeze, and what I'd thought was his concern for me had actually been a presneeze expression.
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#83. My brother is a very bad policeman. So ... you're coming to school, right?" Doug
"Nnnnnnno." Zoey
"Come so you can be around people," Doug coaxed. "I don't think you should be alone today."
"I think I definitely should." Zoey
"Come so I won't worry about you." Doug ;]
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#84. He ran his hands through his hair and held on to the back of his neck both biceps bulging. Dang him for looking so hot when I wanted to run away
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#86. I'm dating Brandon," I told his bowed head.
"Really?" he asked without looking up.
"Yes!"
"I'll print you a wallet card to whip out every time you need to say that, so you can save your voice."
"Could you laminate it?
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#87. Leaning over me with his chest bare, he pressed his wadded-up t-shirt to my ear. It was his Poser t-shirt that he wore to school at least twice a week,and he was willingly staunching my blood with it.He must be in love.
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#88. And ever so faintly,I could hear Josh rapping to his posse's beat.I couldn't make out most of what he was saying, but I thought I caught the word prepubescent.
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#89. 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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#90. John pointed at me to get my attention. He circled his finger in the air to tell me to wrap it up, then pointed to his cop car. I made a series of baseball catcher's signs.
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#92. Her dad turned to me. "You. Follow Me."
"Woof," I said.
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#93. No. I just don't want to be a detective. They figure out what happened after the fact, when it's too late. I want to prevent it from happening.
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#94. I need to explain all this to Adam in private. I can't get McGillicuddy to explain it to him. Something will be lost in translation."
"Well, excuse me that I can't look at him all googly-eyed," my brother said.
"And he's liable to punch you," I said.
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#95. 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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#96. 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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#97. 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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#98. 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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#99. 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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#100. Consider yourself hugged. Virtual hug.
I felt the virtual hug, warm and snug.
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