Tammara Webber Quotes

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Really, he could have just punched me in the stomach, because my brain refused to comprehend the words he was saying. A physical assault, it might have understood.

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There's not a boy on the planet worth this amount of angst. I know; i used to be one

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He stuck the pencil over his ear, looking unconvinced. "Mmm. What position would you be the most comfortable for you?" I couldn't say aloud the answers that popped into my head at that question, but the flush that spread across my face like wildfire gave me away. He caught his lower lip in his teeth, and I was sure it was to contain a laugh. Most comfortable position? What about with my head stuck under a pillow?

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Growing up with my dad taught me to either lie like a pro or not bother.

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Alcohol removes inhibitions. It doesn't trigger criminal violence where there was none before.

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Whenever I appeared to have won an argument, Mom would say something like, 'Even broken clocks are right twice a day.

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He's already chasing you. Now all you have to do is keep running. Just not too fast.

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I suppose love is never a sure thing, no matter what words are spoken. Love requires a leap of faith into the abyss, every time.

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And I'm okay, I really am, most of the time. But sometimes, I'm just not.

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I'd always disparaged the games people played in pursuit of love—or the next hook up. The whole thing was a competition to see who could get how far, and I could never figure out if there was more luck or skill involved, or some unknowable combination of the two. People rarely said what they thought, or revealed how they felt. No one was honest.

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Not stupid. Overly trusting, maybe, but that reflects on his lack of trustworthiness, not on your intelligence.

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That macho protective bullshit is just some asshat man pissing on his territory so the other dogs will stay away.

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I'd basically described myself: a quiet, studious bookworm who would go to bed at a decent hour. A non-partier who wouldn't bring a parade of boys through our room, or make it the floor headquarters for beer pong.

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I used to think of two people in love like that. Like puzzle pieces, fitting together. But it's not like that at all. Love pulls a part of you out, and it pulls a part of him - like taffy, stretching but not separating. The tendrils of each one wrap around the other, until they meld together. One, but not quite. Separate, but not quite.

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His hands reached for me, gripping my hipbones and pulling me forward. he stared down at me, his voice low. "There are some things I will make time for, Jacqueline.

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When you tell me to be good, it makes me want to be good,' I say, hearing the undisguised desire in my voice. I run my fingers through the hair at her temples, taking her face between my palms, and she doesn't move. 'It also makes me want to be very, very bad.

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I was so afraid of wanting too much that I couldn't trust her handing me a shot at getting it. I don't want to be that senselessly fearful ever again.

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I belong to you. There is no one else. All I want is to be where you are.

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She shuddered. What is it with slobbery kissers? Are they trying to drown us in spit? I mean, Jesus, swallow every now and then.

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Not. Your. Fault." I nodded again, holding onto his words like they were redemption.

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But I'll say this, if what looks like the facts of the matter are conflicting with your feelings, then you need more information before deciding

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But the scars are always there, waiting for something to poke them.

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I've started researching online journals for the project. Thanks for decoding Dr. Heller's notes before sending them to me. If you'd have forwarded them to me without a translation, I'd be searching for a tall building/overpass/water tower from which to yell "goodbye cruel world.

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If someone had asked, "How does this compare to kissing Kennedy?" I would have answered, "Who?

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I tilt her chin up and bend my face to hers, silently praising every woman who's had a hand in making her who she is.

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Lucas was fifteen minutes late to class on Friday, and we had a pop quiz first thing—which he missed. My first thought was how irresponsible it was to miss a quiz… and then I remembered that I missed the midterm. I couldn't exactly point any fingers.

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Too much quiet left me depressed and consuming condiments for meals.

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No matter what grief or loss takes place, most of life flows on all around us, as though nothing's changed. At some point in our sorrow, we each make a choice to sink or swim. There's no alternative.

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Erin and I spent four hours shopping for dresses and shoes Tuesday night. She was going all out in her intention to make Chaz regret any decision he'd made that didn't include worshipping at her feet.

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You have a freckle here," he whispered, sweeping his tongue over a spot just under my jaw. "It drives me crazy every time you 're above me. I just want to do this..." The jentle draw of his mouth pushed me over the edge, and my knees tightened around his hips as i rocked against him.

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