Center Ice
Cate Cameron
Top 10 Best Quotes
“He sounded like he was used to people swearing at him, which made no damned sense, because he was gorgeous and a hero.”
“Karen had no problem standing up to people. She’d say ‘no’ before the question was even asked.”
“It was weird to be with her in a group. I kept wanting to stop the conversation to make sure everybody had noticed what a cool thing she’d just said or done. It wasn’t because I was insecure or worried that they wouldn’t like her. I just wanted to have someone to share it all with, like that burst of excitement you get when you meet someone who likes the same obscure band or has the same favorite movie. I guess I was a Karen fan, and I wanted to start a fan club.”
“Yeah, if I could just do as I was told, turn myself into a hockey machine, focus on the game, not let myself get distracted by that girl in the park, the way her hair moved as she ran, the way she’d been a bit of a smart ass about the allergies thing, the way… then the coaches were yelling again and we got back to work.”
“Why the hell should I care what a bunch of shallow strangers thought about me? I sure shouldn’t care what they thought about my so-called father. Maybe he was a much as a slut as they said he was, but they wasn’t my problem. It wasn’t like I’d ever thought he was a good guy.”
“They could justify me having a bedroom in the basement: it had been their spare bedroom for years, there was lots of natural light and it didn’t make sense to move any of the kids out of their bedrooms just to move me in. Minimal distruption, that was the goal. Keep everything normal just the way it always has been. Let’s all just try to ignore the fact that there’s a whole new person suddenly living in the house.”
“My mother was dead, I was living in small-town hell with a father I’d never even met until the day before the funeral and his whole family hated me. A therapist wasn’t going to help with any of that. Nothing was going to help with any of that.”
“My imagination couldn’t change reality. I couldn’t go to the past. I was stuck in the present and I wasn’t sure how the hell I was going to get through the future.”
“It was weird to be feeling like I was over-the-hill when I wasn’t even 18 yet, but if I started thinking about all the young guys coming up behind me, it tended to freak me out.”
“I hate myself at times like these. It’s not weak to take a little help and it doesn’t mean I’m pathetic and needy if I let someone do something for me, but sometimes, it’s like I’m psychologically unable to accept assistance.”
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