Quotes by J.M. Richards

“I need you to just trust me for now without knowing all the answers.”

“You have to be a friend to have them.”

“I wouldnt joke if you werent always patching me up, Davin retorted. He looked at Chad again. You must have noticed, right? Its kind of cute, actually. Though my heart fluttered, I tried to shoot hi...”

“What Ive come to realize I that I dont like action for actions sake. Mindless explosions, super close ups of combat and gore, and unnecessary effects make me zone out incredibly fast.What I do love...”

“Being in love with your best friend is problematic.”

“As much as I cared about him, I wasnt a slave to fate. I could choose to ignore my feelings, strong as they were. It would be painful, but no more so than letting myself pine for my friend.”

“You shouldnt have to pretend to be as excited as I am just to make me happy. If it comes to that, you shouldnt have to pretend to be anything around me. Friends should be real with each other”

“I got through it, and I wore it like a badge of honorI Can Be Alone and it's Okay.”

“I Can Be Alone and it's Okay.”

“I know hes a realist, hes okay with being alone, and he helps people when he thinks no one is watching.”

“I suppose that means you dont want any band-aids, either, I said, a touch more bitterly than Id meant to.”

“When the moment shifts, and you realize you don't actually want to be alone, that underneath the bravado is an ache that wont quite fade away, youre not only aware of how lonely you are, but how mu...”

“I had always thought that I was fine with being alone. Halfway through high school, I moved from Brazil to America, and it took me forever to make friends. I had culture shock of virtually every ki...”

“Well, if you can accept that Im a great big geeky fangirl, then I guess I can accept that youre a skeptic and a realist.”

“If he cant handle it, then you arent very good friends, are you?”

“It was nice. Even in high school, Id mostly had makeshift friends forged by the shared status of outcast. It was rare for me to discuss things so easily to someone outside of my family, but somehow...”

“When I arrived back at Intro to Basic Art again later that week, I thought for a moment we had a new student who didnt know about the assigned seats. Sitting at my table was a girl in a long flower...”

“I bundled in my own blanket and reflected on the strange and somewhat unexpected friendship that was slowly developing between Davin and myself. It was clear to me that he needed a friend, but for ...”

“He pinned me in place with a direct look, his dark brown eyes smoldering. Youre Mary Jane, he said finally. And you have all these Flash Thompsons and Harry Osborns hovering around you, trying to m...”

“Amazing? My heart fluttered. But I dont want Flash or Harry, I murmured. You want Spider-Man, he finished for me, looking a little wistful. I shrugged. And Peter Parker. He looked at me, very serio...”