256 Quotes by Jennifer E. Smith

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    She’s four minutes late, which doesn’t seem like all that much when you think about it’s a commercial break, the period within classes, the time it takes to cook a microwave meal. Four minutes is nothing.

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    They’d been talking about grade school memories, and he’d confessed that he always had trouble making valentines as a kid, especially the kind where you had to fold your piece of construction paper and trace out half a heart. They always came out looking like pink blobs, he’d written. Isn’t that really all a heart is anyway? Ellie had replied. Now.

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    The geography of the thing wasn’t the point; it didn’t matter where they were: there was still too much space between them.

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    He was a professor, a lover of stories, and he was building her a library in the same way other men might build their daughters houses.

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    Childhood memories were like airplane luggage; no matter how far you were traveling or how long you needed them to last, you were only ever allowed two bags. And while those bags might hold a few hazy recollections – a diner with a jukebox at the table, being pushed on a swing set, the way it felt to be picked up and spun around – it didn’t seem enough to last a whole lifetime.

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