129 Quotes by Bijou Hunter

POPPY (standing up to Paul): I see family life as invading everyone’s privacy and saying whatever I feel and treating everyone as they’re treasured because they’re my family and thus special as compared to the rest of the world. I see a good family as loud and frantic and intrusive.

JOURNEY: I’m never more proud of my mother than after seeing her handle her parents that year. She’s finally learning to be herself around people who’d like to keep her in a box of their expectations.

DONOVAN: Court’s a good leader. He doesn’t hold my hand or treat anyone like a child. He’s kicked a few *sses when guys went off script to make their own moves. Once he even scared the sh*t out of one of the older guys.

DONOVAN: Now I understand my strengths. Because of Journey, I no longer waste time pretending to be anyone besides the guy in the mirror.

POPPY: Justice is so pathetic about her man. If her behavior weren’t highly entertaining, we’d force her to stop.

POPPY: Not bad. I’d put you in the top three on my list of possible cherry poppers.EMMETT: No way. Unless your list is me, myself, and I, you’ve only got one name on that list.

POPPY (on high school cliques): I wasn’t smart enough for the gifted kids or athletic enough for the jocks. I didn’t want to s*ck a lot of c*ck, so I couldn’t be a cheerleader or popular girl.

POPPY (on her mother not breastfeeding her during infancy): If you had breastfed me, it might have increased my IQ, and I’d have a lot of pressure to succeed. My average IQ means I can simply coast through life, so thank you.

POPPY (on Christine and Jared's second chance): Mom couldn’t stand up for what she needed, and he was a force of nature. They’ve found a balance now, but she needed to grow up before that could happen.