Quotes from Jennifer Echols

I understand I can't have you. But I want to know you're in the world with me.

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.

What happened was, I told you I loved you.

And the rest is happily ever After.

Waiter, this is not the policeman I ordered. I wanted one with a lot less sauce.

I knew exactly what you'd done. I know that feelings. You have to do something. You have to change something radically, because you can't stay like you are for another second, or you're going to explode.

Love isn't something you have to deserve.

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

My knee radiated heat. As I watched him pull himself from the car and walk casually across the brightly lit parking lot, I thought dumb things. I will never wash my knee again. I will never wash these jeans again. I will cut the knee out of these jeans and sew a pillow to sleep on every night, just to have a molecule of him in my bed with me.

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.

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?

And you told me the biggest lie of all. You told me you loved me," It was my turn to wince like he'd slapped me. "I don't remember saying that" "You would if it had been true. You would feel something

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

No, I didn't remember the deer. Is the deer okay?' 'Fuck the deer. Hush now.

Officer After leaned across the seat toward me - which, under the circumstances, made me start back. 'I'm sorry I'm not allowed to beat the shit out of him for you.

It's one thing to think you're worthless, and quite another for somebody else to tell you that you are.

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.

But you are right, being stupid is not illegal. Otherwise half this town would be behind bars.

It's easier to remember your lies if they're close to the truth,

Love hurt. Honesty made it hurt worse, and I could hardly stand it.

Yeah, I understood that last night at the wreck. Nothing says I love you like a dead body.

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?"His hand clasped my hand again and squeezed. I swallowed. "It could be.

I am full of fear.

Every strong swimmer has a story about nearly drowning.