Tammara Webber Quotes

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

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

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

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Now don't laugh 'cause I just might be...the soft curve in your hardline. (from the song "Hardliners" by Holcombe Waller)

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That's how they say it: He loves you in his own way. Well, what about my way? What if I need for him to love me in my way?

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People feel the need to choose sides when a relationship splits - it's human nature.

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That's what faith is, right?' he says. 'Believing in what can't be known? Fall into my arms, Dori. I'll catch you, every time, and I won't let go.

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I opened my mouth wide one time to see if the words I was thinking would fall out, but they wouldn't. If words don't want to come out, they don't. I don't understand when people say things and then they say, I didn't mean to say that. Words don't just fall out. You have to push them out. And sometimes, you can't push them out, even if you want to.

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But even if you have what everyone else wants- if it isn't what you want, it isn't what you want

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I take it this is one of the ones crushing on you." "What? They all crush on me. I'm a hot college girl, remember?" I laughed and his eyes burned into mine. He leaned in close and whispered into my ear. "So hot. Now you've got me thinking what you looked like this morning, when i woke up with you in my arms, in my bed. Would it be too greedy to ask you to stay tonight, too?" "I was afraid you weren't going to ask.

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I kept my eyes open on the ride home. Peeking over Lucas's shoulder, i watched the scenery fly by-and it was exhilarating, not frightening. I trusted him. I had since that first night, when i let him drive me home.

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Testing her sexuality, she thinks she's caught a beautiful fish, when in reality, she's netted a shark.

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But just because you're strong and resilient doesn't mean you never need someone to be there for you, to take care of you.

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I thought about texting Lucas, but what would i say? That i'd tossed and turned all night, thinking of his hands on me?

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Some of us can begin to heal the damage people have done to us by escaping the situation, but some of us need more than that. Tattoos make statements that need to be made. Or hide things that are no one's business. Your scars are battle wounds, but you don't see them that way. Yet.

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They call it 'falling in love' because it's less like stepping and more like tripping. Tripping is the part where you're still trying to remain upright

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Why don't you go get in bed?" I stood, laying my hand on his chest and staring up at him. "Is that a dare?" He laid one hand over mine and pull me closer with the other. Leaning down, he kissed me gently. "It absolutely is. No falling out of it allowed, though.

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Chivalry isn't really dead you know." "Oh?" "Nah. That guy's just an asshole.

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Rather than raising his voice like everyone else, he leaned close to my ear and asked, "Dance with me?" I felt his warm breath and inhale the scent of his aftershave -something basic and male.

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I breathed him in, closing my mouth tight and inhaling the scent of him through my nose. I felt sheltered by him. Safe.

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Graham runs a hand through his hair and takes a deep breath. Finally, with a determined scowl, he crosses the room. His hands grip my shoulders. We are not, his voice is a gentle tremor, breaking up

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His breath in my ear, he ran his tongue along the curved edge, sucking the fleshy lobe and my small diamond stud into his mouth, and my eyes drifted closed while I babbled a weak sound of longing.

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He laughed, and the sound reduced the pain of every sore place on my body to the dullest ache.

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Sorry, boyfriends everywhere—you're doomed to sit through an hour and forty-seven minutes of syrupy drivel. The payoff? Between my face, Tadd's abs and Quinton's biceps, your girl will be ready for takeoff as soon as the credits roll. You're welcome.

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I shrugged. I guess that guys who'd never do something like that have a hard time believing some other guy would, I said, but I could see her point. Awareness and apologies were fine and good, but they could come too late.

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I try to be rational and suppress the hope that this is for real, but hope has a way of closing its eyes to reason and it just keeps growing.

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Look - guys are dogs. Women have known this since the beginning of time. Guys don't want to be chased; they chase. So if you're going to catch one, you have to know how to make him chase you.

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