I'm a girl who has been tamping down her emotions and keeping them tightly guarded her whole life. And that works really well for me. [...] And now I felt like my shell had a dangerous crack in it. Without much more effort on his part, it would split wide open and my enormous river of emotions would gush out - the bad and the good. It was pretty much the scariest thing I'd ever thought of.
James PattersonLater," Fang said to Ella and Dr. Martinez in that gushy, hyperemotional, overdramatic way he has.
James PattersonYes, I sounded like a pathetic weenie. I prefer to think of it as showing my softer side.
James PattersonI was always a good student, but I didn't read that much until I was 18 and I was working my way through college.
James PattersonHow did you become blind, uh, Jeff is it?" Yeah, Jeff. Well, I looked directly at the sun, you know, the way they always tell you not to. If only I had listened.
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