256 Quotes by Jennifer E. Smith

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    It makes no sense,” she said, her voice cracking a little. “You and me.” “I know that,” he said, reaching out and taking her hand, and the feel of his skin on hers nearly knocked the breath right out of her. “Sort of. But sometimes I think…” “What?” “That maybe it’s the only thing that makes sense.

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    [Hadley] "I have a fear of mayo, so I've actually gotten pretty good at it over the years."[Oliver] "You have a fear of mayo?"She nods again."It's in my top three or four.""What are the others?" he asks with a grin. "I mean what could possibly be worse than mayonnaise.

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    For hours, they wrote back and forth, a conversation punctuated by short periods of waiting, where Lucy held her breath and kept watch over her phone, resenting the constraints of technology, the limits of distance.

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    You know what they say," Dad said. "If you love something set it free.""What if he doesn't come back?""Something do, somethings don't," he said, reaching to tweak her nose. "I'll always come back to you anyway.""You don't light up," Hadley said, but Dad only smiled."I do when I'm with you.

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    That’s the way these things work, kiddo,” he says. “Love isn't supposed to make sense. It's completely illogical.

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    He was surprised to find how much he missed writing to her. For so many months, she'd been the person on the other end of all his musings, and now she was gone and his thoughts were left buzzing around inside his head like frantic fireflies in a jar. He hadn't realized how much it could mean, having someone to talk to like that; he hadn't realized that it could be a kind of lifeline, and that without it, there would be nobody to save you if you started to drown.

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    Being on her own had never been a burden. Instead of weighing her down, it buoyed her up; when she was alone, she was lighter. When she was by herself, she felt untethered and free.

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