The people with the most fear have the greatest opportunity to be brave.
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The documents were in English—sort of—but the language was so convoluted that it was beginning to give her a headache. It made for even duller reading than her chemistry text.
Oooh. Barbie has a brain, huh? The smile was gone. His voice low, gravelly.Oooh. Ken has an attitude, she snapped back.
Jessica walked away from Aaron and Ken, flashing them both a big smile. They were both very attractive – she had dated each of them a number of times. In fact, not too long ago she had contemplated fa...
Jessica stopped a few feet away so that Ken could get an optimal view of her body posed against the seductive backdrop of the sea, sand, and palm trees.
Ever since her obsession with Jonathan Cain, a deranged transfer student who had been at Sweet Valley for a month, Enid’s life had been entirely guyless.
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Oh–it’s just–well, all I can say is, I’d never do anything so –so déclassé,' she finished on a note of smug satisfaction.Narrowing her eyes, Jessica glared at the phone in her hand. Where did Lila get...
Luck doesn't shine her light on each of us equally. She is arbitrary, irrational, unfair and sometimes downright cruel.
Losers with no imagination say that if you start a new school, there has to be a first day. How come they haven't figure out how to be that? Just think existentially. All you do is take what is suppos...
Imagine a world full of Elizabeth Wakefields,' Lila said. 'Could you imagine a duller, more predictable place? I think I’d go crazy.
Another funny thing about having friends was that they expected things of you. they made you want to not be a terrible, awful, execrable person. They made you feel worse when you were one. It was a lo...
This was law? she thought. Where was the excitement of court cases, the challenge of defending the people that her father was always talking about? This was no fun at all.
The girls wore clothes that hadn't been fashionable for at least a year. There was only one blonde in the room, and she didn't even have a tan.
Nature compensates for its mistakes.
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What is with those Wakefield women that makes them think they’re better than everybody?' Ken asked.
That was one plus about profound self-loathing. Nobody could hate you worse than you hated yourself.
Humiliation, by the way, is a truly terrible emotion. It's at the bottom of the pile.