Quotes from Michele Jaffe

Oh well, it's over for you. Call the code at 2:03 p.m." My eyes widened in shock. "That's what they say when someone dies." "Exactly." He nodded. "Woman have fallen in love with me after staring like that for only thirty seconds and I think you just took a full minute. You're doomed.

I think it shows that sometimes for one person to keep breathing, something else has to stop." (hardcover page 37)

Popularity can be a real headache.

Go live ITM." ITM?" In the Mo," Beth elaborated.

Ford," she whispered to him. "I promise I'll leave you alone, never see you again. Just please, help me get you home." Still nothing. "Ford!" She sat up, her hands gripping his shoulders, putting everything she had into it, all her anger and fear and longing and hope and love. "Ford Winter!" So softly she almost missed it, he whispered, "Present." She laughed through her tears and hugged him. "Good boy," she said.

ask yourself, what would babbi do? waht WWBD? You know, the famous line in the movie Bambi if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all.

Ford! Sadie shouted sharply. His eyes snapped open and he called "Present!" like a student waking up in class. It had worked. It had worked. Sadie laughed, and he started to laugh too and mutter, "Present!

On the way out of the bathroom, he stopped to put the toilet seat down. You're going to break my heart, Ford Winter , she thought.

Little Life Lesson 1: Life is a lot like hair, some mornings you get up and it looks great. Other mornings you can tell it's out to get you.

I think I could use a library," she answered finally.

How do you keep doing that, Ford Winter? she wanted to ask. Have me swallowing back a lump in my throat one minute... And rolling my eyes the next.

God, she was a fool. What had she expected him to do? To think? Hi, you hate me, you put your head through five mirrors to make that point, so I was thinking...

It takes someone really brave to confess they're wrong and try to make it right" -Pete

I was thinking that maybe when everything around you changed all the time, it was nice to know that something would always be the same.

I felt a wave of longing roll out of me, but not the way it usually did, diffuse and sad. This was hopeful, as though it had been coaxed out by a whispered promise.

The memory brought back the timbre of her voice and the tickle of her hair on my chin as I put her to bed that night and the feeling of belonging to someone, mattering to someone, having someone whose first smile in the morning was for you. Someone who slipped their hand into yours when they were scared and trusted you to make them feel better. Someone who knew you, the important things about you, and loved you anyway.

I work my hardest at everything. That's just achieving, not overachieving.

Ford kept his hands on his head. "Is that really necessary? I was arrested by Serenity Services a week ago, and they didn't even cuff me." The argument that you don't need cuffs because you were arrested without them a week ago is a winner , Sadie thought.

I just think that once you begin to see things the way the camera says is the average way, the way most people want to see them, it can be hard to remember to go back and find your own focus, your own point of view" -Scott

You can't run away from home. It's not home if you want to run away from it.

You can't run away from home. It's not home if you want to run away from it. You can only run away from a house. Home is something you run toward.

But secrets can also keep things precious. Private. That's what can be hard for people to understand. It can be nice to have something you don't share with the world." -Bridgette

I paused, deciding which story to pluck from my quiver and shoot in his direction" -Eve

You should have died