When Brittany walks into Mrs. P.'s class on Friday I'm still thinking about how I'm going to get back at her for throwing my keys into the woods last weekend. It took me forty-five minutes to find the suckers, and all the while I was cursing Brittany. Okay, so I give her props for dishing it out.

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SARAH PAYNE

Im okay Im okay now.
But you really need to listen to me
'cause im telling you the trut...
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KATHY MCCAULEY

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I turn around and she's right in front of me. "W...
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NICHOLAS SPARKS

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COURTNEY SUMMERS

I inquired for Mrs. Reynolds and was shewn up stairs, at the head of which she met me and conducted ...
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MANUEL MONGRAIN

Okay, so I shouldn't have fucked with her on the introduction thing. Writing nothing except, ...
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DAVID OWENS A buddy of mine was writing to the president, and he talked me into writing. It was just a letter of...
ERIC COLTON They really take care of me. Brittany Campbell gave me a card the other day with Care Bear Band Aids...
CRISTI ECKS In that house, you will find my heart. You must break in, Henri, and get it back for me.'
Was s...
JEANETTE WINTERSON and the girl and I get into her car and drive off into the hills and we go to her room and I take of...
BRET EASTON ELLIS I turn over and lie flat on my back,staring at the ceiling. When she slept beside me, I slept well. ...
E.L. JAMES Im going to Invest in a Turtle shell so i dont have to Watch MY Back. add ME to the Ninja Turtles Li...
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COLLEEN BOYD Let's get out of here. You and me, mi amor. !Vamos!"
I breathe a sigh of relief as I s...
SIMONE ELKELES I had a suit made for me when I was five. It was double-breasted, mohair and purple. My mother was v...
OZWALD BOATENG I heard her shout that she was good for 16. I told Simone I was going to hold her to it. She said, '...
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RUTINA WESLEY [?] For me, it has to be mentality, ... We have to go into games with the mentality that we're not g...
JASON KREIS Xypher flashed himself into Simone's bedroom, expecting to find her there.
It was empty.
C...
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LIZ SUTMAN No one in my family or my circle of friends had ever had to confront something like this. Jamie was ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS It's like I get into a roller coaster, and sit there while it goes up and down and upside down and s...
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ANNE LAMOTT Im going to be eighty soon, and I guess the one thing that puzzles me most is how quick it got here.
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CRAIG GROESCHEL The benefits of IM are undeniable for businesses, yet the security risks and challenges are paramoun...
CHRIS SHIPLEY I might have been thinking about that now if my back didn't give out for a little bit. Right now, al...
JARET WRIGHT I blindfolded my girlfriend at night and led her into the woods, where I had a blanket, rose petals,...
BEN CURTIS My grandfather took me and my brother to the roof of his house, ... He took out his rifle and he ble...
DEEPAK CHOPRA Morning. I didn't wake you, did I?' God, he looks gorgeous, even at this early hour. 'No. I've been ...
SAMANTHA TOWLE I have a terrible lifestyle. And I don't really see it changing. Maybe in 10 years I'll see ...
BRITTANY HOWARD Im a soulless lawyer. Give me any opinion and I can argue it.
MEGYN KELLY Last year, [when] I first came into this league, I didn't know really how this league was or how the...
DEMETRIS BENDROSS [about her offer of a Swedish massage]
Alex: You're not Swedish.
Brittany: Yeah, well, ne...
SIMONE ELKELES It's very temperamental. I still missed a couple, but it was much better than (Friday) night. I'm pr...
DIO DANTE I was really shy when I was younger, so my mom got me into an acting class to see if I would open my...
MOISES ARIAS Joe: Oo, Brittany "Aren't I Fabulous?" Hobson?
Addie: She's not that bad.
Joe: Brittany "A...
JAMES HOWE I faced the gaudy sunflower on her canvas bag -- it looked hand-painted and at last my eyes fell int...
JERRY SPINELLI There's nothing missing except Brittany, the money and her car, ... My daughter's the most wonderful...
JAMES POWERS i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL Kelly's 200 IM was just a phenomenal swim. We're at point right now where we're really training hard...
MARK MOREHOUSE I brush her hair back from her forehead. "You need to stop worrying about everything that can't be c...
JESSICA SORENSEN From a distance,' he says, 'my car looks just like every other car on the freeway, and Sarah Byrnes ...
CHRIS CRUTCHER I couldn't believe it, she took this shot to the head, sat out for an inning and then came back to p...
DAVE BRADLEY I wouldn’t stop until I figured the damn thing out–it would take me fifteen or twenty minutes. B...
RICHARD FEYNMAN im still waiting for that kiss when my leg [(P o p s)]*
MEGAN My mom taught me how to sew and I liked it for five minutes.
LORI KERR I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES It took a while to get into it. It's going to take a while to get out of it.
BENJ STEINMAN It was one of my individual side goals to try and get it before we started going on the road a lot. ...
CASSIE HAHL Highways are like rivers, everytime im on a highway or a river, it makes my mind flow, nonstopping, ...
TERRY VISAKAY The plan was to get it into Katie (Daly) so every time I saw her I chucked it at her. She was incred...
KRISTA CLARK It hadn't been returned, so she went to East St. Louis to look for it on her own. When she found it,...
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TAI It’s about the dream of second chances,” he says finally. He hasn’t raised his eyes from the p...
KATJA MILLAY When I first found out I had HIV, I had to find somebody who was living with it, who could help me u...
MAGIC JOHNSON When she fucked up, all those years ago, just a little girl terrified into paralysis, she collapsed ...
JOHN GREEN Lee has surveillance on Fortnum’s, cameras and bugs, twenty-four seven. He put it in when I was go...
KRISTEN ASHLEY Whore!” he snarls, slamming me into the wall so hard stars burst in my eyes. I hiss at him, the ti...
JESSICA KHOURY All I was thinking about was getting the ball down, but it still floated on me. Obviously, it worked...
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DALLY SALAD Last week I did a piece for Style on advice to Laura Bush about how to help her husband. This week i...
SALLY QUINN Hana?" Lena says softly. "Are you okay?"
That single stupid question breaks me. All the metal f...
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SIMONE ELKELES A veces hay que alejarse de la multitud para ser una mejor persona. No siempre es fácil, eso es seg...
SIMONE ELKELES —Te diré a lo que es real. Real es que yo estaba en la cárcel durante el último año, quedándo...
SIMONE ELKELES Es difícil mantener todo igual cuando las mismas cosas lucen y se sienten diferentes.
SIMONE ELKELES Cómo me gustaría poder retroceder al año pasado y empezar de nuevo. La vida no te permite hacer e...
SIMONE ELKELES I'll tell you what's real. Real is that I was in jail for the past year, rooming with drug dealers a...
SIMONE ELKELES I'm standing here, holding a half a lemon in my hand. I'm speechless, I'm excited . . . I'm a wreck....
SIMONE ELKELES I let it all out--my mom's date,my dad's conversation,my confusion about it all.Caleb doesn't laugh,...
SIMONE ELKELES I can't sleep. Too many thoughts running through my useless head.
SIMONE ELKELES Being told when to shit, shower, shave, eat, and sleep isn't my idea of paradise. But then again, Pa...
SIMONE ELKELES what could i do to make the one i loved love me back ?
SIMONE ELKELES It's as if I'm taking away his pain and he's taking away mine.
SIMONE ELKELES I wasn't going to kiss you."'
'You weren't?' I look up look up at him.
[...]
'Nope, t...
SIMONE ELKELES No, the next time i kiss you it'll last a long, long time. And then when we're done you're gonna rea...
SIMONE ELKELES being afraid to take chances is scarier than actually doing things that challenge you.
SIMONE ELKELES the scary part is that people don't realize how much they've changed .
SIMONE ELKELES I cry a lot.'
'Yeah? Well I'm gonna change that.
SIMONE ELKELES I look down at our knees, slightly touching. Jeans against jeans. Does she notice the heat transferr...
SIMONE ELKELES Trust me, he whispers against my lips. Maggie, you're my paradise.
SIMONE ELKELES I'm the one who got hit by that car, not you,' I tell him. 'Don't act like you're the victim here. Y...
SIMONE ELKELES Why shouldn't I be introspective? We dont' make sense."
"Neither do Chocolate and Peanut Butter...
SIMONE ELKELES I want to live life on my own terms. But I'm Mexican, so mi familia is always there to guide me in e...
SIMONE ELKELES I want to make sure Kiara’s got a boyfriend who has more to offer than a hot bod and a face that c...
SIMONE ELKELES You’re not the only one in this relationship who loves a
challenge,” he says. “And just s...
SIMONE ELKELES Didn't you learn anything from my mistakes?" he asks.
Shit, when Alex was in the Latino Blood b...
SIMONE ELKELES Girls like you want to cut guy's nuts off and hang 'em from your rearview mirror.
SIMONE ELKELES A garter. You’re supposed to take it off and keep it as a memento. K-k-kinda like a trophy
fo...
SIMONE ELKELES Do I hear a challenge?” she whispers, “Oh, Carlos. You know I can’t resist a challenge.
SIMONE ELKELES He opens his window and motions for me to open mine. When I do, he tries to say something. His voice...
SIMONE ELKELES Dios mio, I think my brother lost his balls somewhere between here and Mexico. Or maybe Brittany has...
SIMONE ELKELES Hey, Shell-bell," I say, leaning over her and wiping her face with a napkin. "It's the first day of ...
SIMONE ELKELES Kiss me to see if we still have it. 'Cause you own my heart,soul,and everything else in between.
SIMONE ELKELES There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justi...
SIMONE WEIL The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.
SIMONE WEIL The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
SIMONE WEIL More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact ...
SIMONE WEIL For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends ar...
SIMONE WEIL All sins are attempts to fill voids.
SIMONE WEIL To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.
SIMONE WEIL Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.
SIMONE WEIL I can, therefore I am.
SIMONE WEIL I'll tell you what freedom is to me: no fear. I mean really, no fear!
NINA SIMONE The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the re...
NINA SIMONE Did you know that the human voice is the only pure instrument? That it has notes no other instrument...
NINA SIMONE Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed wh...
SIMONE WEIL There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of...
SIMONE WEIL Most athletes get intimidated once they see how many fans are out there, but it almost calms me down...
SIMONE BILES Physical intimacy is easy. Emotional intimacy is hard.
HANNAH SIMONE I have an extended family of close friends, guy and girls.
HANNAH SIMONE It's always exciting when you love something and you get the opportunity to share it with more p...
HANNAH SIMONE My lashes are so long that if I don't curl them, I'm blind.
HANNAH SIMONE Most high-level models that I've ever met are actually well-travelled; they're cultured, and...
HANNAH SIMONE

When Brittany walks into Mrs. P.'s class on Friday I'm still thinking about how I'm going to get back at her for throwing my keys into the woods last weekend. It took me forty-five minutes to find the suckers, and all the while I was cursing Brittany. Okay, so I give her props for dishing it out.

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