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My Life Next Door
Huntley Fitzpatrick
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Maybe if I can just sleep for a hundred years, I'll wake up in a better story.”
“Is Jase already gonna marry you?” I start coughing again. “Uh, No. No, George. I’m only seventeen.” As if that’s the only reason we’re not engaged. “I’m this many.” George holds up four, slightly grubby fingers. “But Jase is seventeen and a half. You could. Then you could live in here with him. And have a big family.” Jase strides back into the room, of course, midway through this proposition. “George. Beat it. Discovery Channel is on.” George backs out of the room but not before saying, “His bed’s really comfortable. And he never pees in it.”
“You have to kiss me," I find myself saying. "Yeah." He leans closer. "I do.”
“Did you know that in space it's very, very cold? And there's no oxygen? And if an astronaut fell out of a shuttle without his suit he'd die right away?" I'm a fast learner. "But that would never happen. Because astronauts are really, really careful." George gives me a smile, the same dazzling sweet smile as his big brother, although at this point, with green teeth. "I might marry you," he allows. "Do you want a big family?”
“Who are these people, and why do they think their own opinions are the only right ones?”
“Why do all the hot girls want the jocks and the good boys? We losers are the ones that need you.”
“I don't know. I didn't have that choice. But I know what's happening now. And I'm choosing to stay with you.”
“The Garretts were my bedtime story, long before I ever thought I’d be part of the story myself.”
“It's as though I don't make a ripple as I drop off the face of the earth.”
“They say you never know what you would do in a hypothetical situation. We’d all like to think we’d be one of the people who gave up their lifejackets and waved a stoic good-bye from the slanting deck of the titanic, someone who jumped in front of a bullet for a stranger, or turned and raced back up the stairs of one of the towers, in search of someone who needed help rather than our own security. But you just don’t know for sure if, when things fall apart, you’ll think safety first, or if safety will be the last thing on your mind.”
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