29 Quotes by Cammie McGovern

You have to know things like: don’t spend the whole time talking about yourself. I used to have a problem with this because silence makes me nervous and I fill it with whatever is in my head...

It was electrifying the way he watched her so carefully that he forgot himself.

I have learned not to judge people by their limitations, but by the way they push past them.

Freakishness could happen to anyone at any time.

You don’t have to date me, just don’t date her. Please, as your friend, I’m begging you not to date someone who doesn’t appreciate you.

What you do if you fall in love with a character in a movie is decide what you like about that person and start looking for those qualities in a real person you know from life.

Scratch a female inmate, I’ve discovered, and you’ll usually find a girl whose mother had terrible taste in men.

It used to be she didn’t get dressed a lot of days. Now she comes out of her room most mornings dressed like she’s ready to go. She still doesn’t go anywhere, but the important part is, she could.

He had no idea how wonderful he was. How his hands were so beautiful she could hardly look at them. How his truest smile was crooked and lifted higher on the left side than the right, which made her feel like he might understand her better, her hemiplegic face that was all crooked half smiles, too. But it couldn’t be denied. He was also slightly crazy. Maybe more than slightly.