One of Us Is Next
Karen M. McManus
Top 10 Best Quotes
“I don’t understand why the world insists on stuffing kids into boxes we never asked for, and then gets mad when we won’t stay there.”
“But you can’t change the past, you know? All you can do is try harder next time. So don’t give up on yourself just yet.”
“We’re endgame.” I wipe a stray tear from the corner of my eye. “What does that mean?” “It means that we’ll wind up together eventually. It might take a year for us to sort everything out, or two, or ten. Whatever. But it’ll happen.”
“Holding on to resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.”
“How do you make that choice?" I ask almost to myself. "Between what you need and what you want?" I feel like my sister's going through her own version of that. Kris's eyes are on Cooper, too. "You hope they become the same thing, I guess.”
“Good thing life is long and high school is short”
“Who do you want to be? The guy who goes along or the guy who stands up? This is the time to decide.”
“People who never get told no are so bad at hearing it.”
“Sometimes, you don't know what you want until you see it.”
“No matter how much you care about someone, things change when they used to be around all the time an then suddenly, they're not.”
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