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“Your own life starts the moment you're born. Before that, even.""I just, I feel like as long as I live with you, I won't... I'm not... It's like George Jefferson.""From the TV show?""Right. George ...”
“You'll never have to fend for yourself like that, Lincoln. You never have to be alone. Why would you want to?"He leaned back against his bedroom wall and slunk down until he was sitting on the cast...”
“I pictured a girl who made every moment, everything she touched, and everyone around her feel lighter and sweeter.”
“I want to be near the ocean, Lincoln, the ocean! I want to feel the tides. And i want mountains, too, at least one mountain. Is that too much to ask? And trees. Not a whole forest, necessarily. I'd...”
“I said that sometimes it's too much.""Well, I want someone who doesn't thinks so. I want someone who's heart is big enough to hold me.""You want someone whose love will fit around your finger.”
“I'm genetically programmed to be a terrible person.”
“You don't get to choose," Lincoln said. "It's just happening.”
“Her take is that I'm just a late bloomer - that I'm taking forever to ruin my life, she's running out of patience.”
“I dont know, he said. I just feel like I have to do something.Do what?I dont know. Thats whats wrong. Or part of whats wrong. I feel like Im sleepwalking.”
“What would it be like to hold a different girl?”
“He had never looked at me before, never, and the idea made my skin burn.”
“Its a number.Its not, she said. Its a chance to wake up new.”
“It wasn't hard going to the gym, as long as he went as soon as he woke up, before he had time to think about not going. Those morning workouts made him feel like he was starting his day like a pinb...”
“From: Beth Fremont To: Jennifer Scribner-Snyder Sent: Thurs, 09/30/1999 3:42 PM Subject: If you were Superman and you could choose any alter ego you wanted, why the hell would you choose to spend...”
“October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup. October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins. O autumn! O teaket...”
“Miniature Emilie came along. Lincoln could tell she was watching him, but he tried not to encourage her. He didn't want to betray Beth. They wouldn't let you ride Splash Mountain, he thought.”
“I dare you to call Ask-A-Nurse and tell them you feel a presence in your womb region.”
