It’s strange. Home. How I could wish for it for so long, only to come back and find it gone. To be here, in my technical house, and discover that home is now someplace different.
It's why she's always switching coaches, and it's why she'd rather get third instead of second. When she gets third, at least she's happy to have placed. But second. That's too close to first.
Is it possible for home to be a person and not a place? Bridgette used to be home to me. Maybe St. Clair is my new home.
Is it possible for a home to be a person and not a place? Brigette used to be home to me. Maybe St. Clair is my new home.
I've learned that if I never leave those areas of my life that feel comfortable, I'll never have a chance at a greater happiness.
I'm not British.I'm American.I smile. Sure you are.I am.You have to be an American to attend SOAP,remember?Soap?School of America in Paris, he explains. SOAP.Nice.My father sent me here to be cleansed...
I need you to be my person,
I look at you, and I think about you, and ... I don't know. No one has ever confounded me the way you do.
I know. And I couldn't wait any longer, I have to tell you - The panic rises, and I grip the French band tighter. Cricket, please -But his words pour forth in a torrent. I can't stop thinking about yo...
I know sneakers aren't very French-I should be wearing pointy boots or scary heels-but at least they aren't white. It's true what they say about white sneakers. Only American tourists wear them,big ug...
I finally realized how absurd it was that I'd worried so much about what my classmates thought about me. It's not like I wanted to look like them.
I can’t imagine Josh falling for someone vanilla.Not that Josh would ever fall for me.But I wouldn’t want to ruin any chance.Even though I don’t have a chance.But just in case I do.Even though I don’t...
How much detention did you get?Two weeks. One per arsehole.
Foreign novels are less action-oriented. They have a different pace; they’re more reflective. They challenge us to look for the story, find the story within the story.
Don’t be a chickenshit. Tell him how you feel. What if he doesn’t love me? He does. What if he doesn’t? Ugh, then who cares? You won’t lose anything you haven’t already lost.
Do adults realize how lucky they are? Or do they forget that these small moments are actually small miracles? I don’t want to ever forget.
Cricket: NO. I mean, yes, but ... sometimes there are ... extenuating circumstances. That prevent it from being easy. For a while. But then people overcome those ... circumstances and ...Lola: So you...
But I don't want to give you this broken, empty me. I want you to have me when I'm full, when I can give something back to you. I don't have much to give right now.
Because, of course, of how intelligent you are. And funny. Not that you aren't attractive. Because you are. Attractive. Oh, bugger...I wait.Are you still there, or did you hang up because I'm such a b...
Because I was right. For the two of us, home isn't a place. It's a person