Top 100 Mcmann's Quotes
#1. The vamp in McMann's stared at me. I guess he didn't like the Goth look. Most of them don't; somehow they think I'm making fun of them.
Which I totally am.
Rachel Caine
#2. I'm awful glad I'm not a bug
to go through life without a hug.
Kat McMann
#3. She opens her eyes slowly. It takes her a moment to adjust to the bright kitchen light, shining in her eyes. "Can we rearrange the furniture this weekend?" she asks sleepily. "So when I sleep out here, you don't shine all of Satan's fiery hell lights in my eyes first thing in the morning?
Lisa McMann
#4. I know i'll screw up. But i'll keep trying, as long as you let me.
Lisa McMann
#5. 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
#6. I love Chris Crutcher, Sara Zarr, Lois Lowry, Elizabeth Scott, Madeleine L'Engle, Gordon Korman, Michelle Magorian, Heather Bouwman.
Lisa McMann
#7. There's just no happily ever after in Janie's book.
But they both know there is something. Something good between them.
There is respect.
And there is depth.
Unslefishness.
An understanding between them that surpasses a hell of a lot else.
And there's that love thing.
Lisa McMann
#8. Sawyer turned our friendship off like a faucet, but I can't help it - my faucet of love has a really bad leak.
Lisa McMann
#9. That was the goth stage, where I decided I'd never get the girl of my dreams because of my scars. Not to mention my hairstyle. (pause) But then she slammed a door handle into my gut. And when a girl does that to a boy, it means she likes him.
Lisa McMann
#10. The Thickety is a sinister, magical debut with a marvelous and shocking heroine. J.A. White's elegant writing and masterful plot kept me turning pages late into the night.
Lisa McMann
#11. I don't see a day when teenagers don't read. They are very enthusiastic. That is so inspiring to me.
Lisa McMann
#12. They have an unusual relationship. And when things are good, it's magic.
Lisa McMann
#13. I vividly remember sixth grade. It's the year when kids turn mean, and it's definitely no longer okay to cry in public. So we force our hot tears back, and they burn our throats all the way down.
Lisa McMann
#14. Hell I wish all guys could just cry and not have it be such a big stupid deal. Shed a tear. Be a man. Whatever.
Lisa McMann
#16. He kisses her. She kisses him. They kiss.
Lisa McMann
#18. It's the intent, not the word, that makes something harsh.
Lisa McMann
#20. 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
#21. So, what are you doing tonight?"
Me?" Janie laughs. "Homework, of course."
You want company?" Carrie's looking wistful.
Do you have homework to do?"
Of course. WEther I do it or not is the real question.
Lisa McMann
#22. Go force your condescending man-logic on the next house. You can go now.
Lisa McMann
#24. -We'll need to go back soon. We won't trouble you for long.-
-Never have I desired trouble more.-
Lisa McMann
#25. I was a blueberry picker, bindery worker, bookstore clerk and later manager, and a Realtor.
Lisa McMann
#27. It's just the end of some things. And the beginning of others.
Lisa McMann
#28. It's hard to watch. Can't stand the pressure of that much hope.
Lisa McMann
#29. She finds Snickers bars in the strangest places.
(She knows it's from him.)
(She wonders if they're laced with pot.)
Lisa McMann
#30. There will always be times we struggle, make bad decisions, even fail. What's important is not that we fail, but that we learn and grow. And that we know that there is alway someone out there who believes in us.
Lisa McMann
#31. I know what a really bad day is ... and that's not losing a competition.
Sara McMann
#32. If you don't want me to see, I guess, don't sleep in the same room as me."
He looks at her with a sly smile. "But I'm known for sleeping in school. It's my shtick.
Lisa McMann
#33. She sits in the driveway, freezing, for thirty-six minutes. Arguing with herself. Because she thinks she's in love with him too. And there are two ways she can be a fool in love right now. She chooses the harder one. And knocks on the door.
Lisa McMann
#34. Because there's no way on earth she's going to make it through college unless she grows some serious ovaries and turns this train wreck around
Lisa McMann
#35. -I'm not creative like you.-
-Of course you are!-
-I don't sing or draw or act or play an instrument. I can't make things.-
-That's not what 'creative' means, you know. Creativity is in everything.-
Lisa McMann
#36. 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
#37. I know it's hard when things like this happen. It's painful. Sometimes we make sacrifices. Sometimes we lose dear friends whom we love deeply, and that makes us want to hold our other loved ones closer so we don't lose them, too.
Lisa McMann
#38. Janie's hip buzzes again. Maybe
she'll have to have her whole leg amputated, she thinks sadly. That
would really suck.
Lisa McMann
#39. Carrie doesn't seem to talk about anything with sharp edges. Maybe she's afraid they might poke her and then she'd burst.
Lisa McMann
#40. I am alrrready herrre forrr you, Alex. Wheneverrr you need me, as long as you need me. And even longerrr," he said. "It is my duty. But it's also my pleasurrre.
Lisa McMann
#41. Life is very complicated. Filled with dreams and adventures, and disasters and broken hearts, too.
Lisa McMann
#42. He waits a moment. And then murmurs, 'I love you, Janie Hannagan. I can't get enough of you. I wake up in the morning and all I want to do is be with you.' He props himself up on his elbow. 'Do you have any idea how unusual, how important that is to me?
Lisa McMann
#43. Whatever I want,' he says.
'Yes.'
'I'm afraid you haven't been privy to that dream yet.
Lisa McMann
#44. Hippie said he couldn't stay. Be back tomorrow
-Love,Mom
Lisa McMann
#45. Whatever problems you may face, you must know this: I do believe in you.
Lisa McMann
#46. Jacian Obregon. It sounds like a melody. Or a tragedy.
Lisa McMann
#47. Oh baby, he whispers. Steps back. Out of the doorway. His face ashen. He walks slowly back to the kitchen. Leans over the counter. Puts his head in his hands. His hair falls over his fingers.
The bathroom door clicks shut.
She stays there for a long time.
He's pulling his hair out.
Lisa McMann
#48. Every time Sky smiled at him, he felt like he lost half his brain.
Lisa McMann
#49. Janie: So you're a double agent? Cabel: Sure.That sounds sexy.
Lisa McMann
#50. Darcy hadn't thought so at first, but he was beginning to suspect his wife might have something akin to opinions of her own. As
Renata McMann
#51. Alex leaned over to Samheed. "If we get an hour's worth of music lessons, I think my head might explode." "In that case, bring on the music," Samheed muttered. Alex
Lisa McMann
#52. 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
#53. Even if you made them up, I'd listen to all your stories until there were no more, and then demand you begin again.
Lisa McMann
#54. Excellent." Captain nods. "Cabel. What's your job?"
Watching in agony, sir."
Captain suppressed a smile. "I'd make you stay home if I didn't know you'd sneak out, anyway. while you are watching in agony, feel free to take note of anyone who comes or goes that's not on the list.
Lisa McMann
#55. 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
#56. So, ah, I'm not sure if you know this, but you're not wearing a shirt."
"Distracting, isn't it?
Lisa McMann
#57. I had one of those defining moments in the fourth grade when my teacher said the story I wrote was the best in the class, and therefore I would be going Young Authors Conference where I'd get to hang out with authors all day.
Lisa McMann
#58. When we come in, Trey is sitting up in the bed, him arm is a sling and a shadow of stubble on his face. "It's about time," he says. He's got the look of a stoner on his face, and I he's got a morphine drip going. Guess mom and Dad don't think HE'LL get addicted. Eye roll.
Lisa McMann
#60. You could have been one of us." "Death would've been a better option.
Lisa McMann
#61. Shred my beard and call me Ishmael!" the captain shouted. He
Lisa McMann
#62. Come on, Cabel," Carrie says. "Let me give you a ride, at least. Unless you want Shay to- hey, here she comes now." Carrie titters, her eyes dancing.
Cabel's eyes grow wide. He slips into the backseat of Carrie's car without a word. "Get me outta here. Fuckin' creepy cheerleaders.
Lisa McMann
#63. I smile and blush, and weave my way back through the dog room to the lobby and into the cat room, because when a boy with two kittens says he loves you, you do whatever you can to get to him as quickly as possible.
Lisa McMann
#64. [Redacted] felt a certain heaviness descend upon his shoulders and a loneliness rise to his throat, and instead of embracing the familial moment, he turned away, overwhelmed by it.
Lisa McMann
#65. Captain gives her a hard look. "You know what shit is? Killing three innocent people. Think your life is bad now, try living with that." Her voice is harsh.
Lisa McMann
#66. Janie.
Does not like.
To be called.
Buffy.
Lisa McMann
#67. Once you read something, you can't erase it from your brain.
Lisa McMann
#68. You don't have to have all the right things in life, all the doors already open for you, in order to do great things.
Sara McMann
#69. They linger near the back door, forehead to forehead and curved like statues as their lips whisper and brush together.
Lisa McMann
#71. Seriously, I dreamed that I was in my husband's dream, watching what he was dreaming about. Like, I was in his dream as an onlooker. It was so weird that I immediately wrote it down in the middle of the night. In the morning, it still sounded cool.
Lisa McMann
#72. If I know the outcome is not going to devastate my life, it makes me so much more excited for everything that's to come.
Sara McMann
#73. What do you think about when you close your eyes?" she asked. Alex looked at her, her silky orange eyes catching light from the fire, her hair falling against her cheek, her lips soft and full. "You really want to know?" She nodded. "Yeah." "I think about you,
Lisa McMann
#74. One of my favorite ways to write paranormal, as in the 'Wake' trilogy, is to write very normal characters with just a hint of something other-worldly. Like somewhere, maybe, someone really can get sucked into other people's dreams.
Lisa McMann
#75. There's something about a guy who admits he's a jerk that makes him forgiveable.
Lisa McMann
#76. And then they kiss.
Slowly, gently.
Because with the right person, sometimes kissing feels like healing.
Lisa McMann
#77. With the notebook resting ominuslously on Janie's bed, Janie procrastinates.
Does her homework first.
And pours herself a bowl of ceral. Breakfast - one of the five most important meals of the day. Not to be skipped.
Lisa McMann
#78. Or maybe she wants to believe that he found her on purpose. Even Janie can have her dreams.
Lisa McMann
#79. Do you still love me, Janie?'
Janie stares at him, incredulous. 'Yes, of course! I don't say it lightly.'
'Say it lightly in my ear,' he demands.
She smiles, rests her soft cheek on his scratchy one, and whispers it. 'I love you, Cabe.
Lisa McMann
#80. It's the touching they both long for. The holding. Spent their whole lives, each without any.
Lisa McMann
#81. I just hope God doesn't get all the credit for bringing me home, because I sure hitchhiked a hell of a long ways and walked my frozen feet off to get here.
Lisa McMann
#82. Maybe broken hearts can mend more easily than broken hands and eyes
Lisa McMann
#84. I've always found teenagers really interesting. I think they've got so much going on in their lives, so that lends itself really well to fiction because there's so much drama, so much activity, so much growth.
Lisa McMann
#85. I would like to be able to disappear whenever I do something dorky.
Lisa McMann
#86. Because if you don't have at least one person believing in you, then there's not much reason to give a shit about anything.
Lisa McMann
#87. Because our power is motivating, and gives momentum and ownership of changes to those who dream of failure.
Lisa McMann
#88. 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
#89. But everything came flooding back too fast. Meghan was still unconscious, Sam and Lani were still missing, Simber was still at the bottom of the ocean, and Mr. Today
Lisa McMann
#90. Feels like I'm in a play and I don't know all my lines.
Lisa McMann
#91. The phone rings.
"Asshole," she mutters. She picks it up.
"Will you let me explain?"
"No." She hangs up.
Lisa McMann
#92. I went to Holland Christian High School in Holland, Michigan, and to Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Lisa McMann
#93. I felt like I could be a good example that you don't have to have all the right things in life, all the doors already open for you, in order to do great things. In fact, I truly believe that a lot of people who do great things, many of them have come from harder backgrounds.
Sara McMann
#94. A trapped soul waits for redemption. It waits. And waits. For her to take her last breath.
Lisa McMann
#95. Who hasn't had the 'I went to school/work in my underwear' dream?
Lisa McMann
#96. People who care about each other don't hurt each other or make each other feel small.
Lisa McMann
#97. We need our hugs to get us through!
and without them what would we do?
Did you receive a hug today?
and have you given one away?
:o)kat
Kat McMann
#98. I'm not going to blame a referee for something I feel like I should be able to control. I should get up quicker. If you want to win fights, you just have to do it, regardless of what's going on.
Sara McMann
#99. Passion is what must take the place of fury. Passion makes us want to live another day, to try to do the right thing. Passion contains love and fear and anger and motivation. Passion keeps you fighting when you want to give up.
Lisa McMann
#100. No rash decisions. No big commitments. Each day as it comes.
Lisa McMann
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