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“I start to think, 'It's awful being too poor to even buy my own dress for homecoming.' But that's instantly swept away by another thought: 'I'm so lucky that someone cates enough to loan me a dress.”
“I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people you hate. But you must still dare to love. The rewards are worth far more than the risks.”
“Governments will rise, and governments will fall, and man will do evil to man, and all we can do is turn our hearts to good.”
“Why didn't you tell me that evil could be so lighthearted?”
“I was Pandora, bound and determined to open that box.”
“We can hope.”
“But, really, are there any guys out there who arent jerks? I dont even know any grown-up men who arent jerks.”
“I was there laughing and joking with everyone else, but its like there was some part of mestanding back, watching, thinking, Is this as good as it gets?”
“Ah, jeez... She really is a cheerleader.' And it seemed suddenly that this was true- not because she was an airhead or a hottie or a nonjock, but because she could throw herself so wholeheartedly i...”
“I can't go back to being who I used to be!'Hadley looked down at him sympathetically.'None of us can, kid.' he said. 'That's the point. You get what you get. Life changes you. Time travel or no, yo...”
“At times like this, Eryn didn't feel like they were just twins. They were teammates. They were partners. They were two halves of the same brain.”
“Jen, we did it. Everyone's free now.”
“That porch is a happy-looking place, and my father - burdened, stoop-shouldered, cadaverously thin - doesn't seem to belong on it.”
“But itd be nice to have someone who cared about me, someone I could talk toabout anything, someone whod tell me I was really special.”
“We will not be stupid girls. We will not be powerless girls. We will not be useless girls”
“The truth is, time travel is hard, and people are lazy.”
“He made time travel sound almost like hide-and-seek or capture the flag or some other spylike game--only with higher stakes and greater consequences.”
“Because," he said in an even voice, "you're used to winning, so you don't even think about how, every time there's a game, both sides get that 'rah, rah, team' speech from their coaches both sides ...”
“To quote a famous philosopher revered in my time 'But this is no different from regular life. When have you ever known what's going to happen in the future?'" Wait a minute, Jonah thought. I said t...”
“It’s like I’d been walking a tightrope with a big safety net underneath me, but I never really thought about the net until someone took it away. And then every single step scared me to death.”
