WORTH IT and perfect are different things. No oneโs perfect, yet in romance, everyone becomes WORTH IT. And thatโs the trick.
Maureen JohnsonLies are a tremendous karmic setback. Keep it up and you'll come back in the next life as something without a spine. You're not fine. And you don't have to be fine.
Maureen JohnsonNew start or not, there was a line to be drawn, and that line was singing musicals to yourself as serious psychological motivation.
Maureen JohnsonOne thing," I said, when we had broken apart and the swirling feeling in my head subsided. "Maybe...don't tell your mom too much about this. I think she has ideas." "What?" he asked, all innocence, as he put an arm around my shoulders and led me back toward his house. "Don't your parents cheer and stare when you make out with someone? Is that weird where you come from? I guess they don't get to see it much, though. From jail, I mean." "Shut it, Weintraub. If I knock you down in the snow, these kids will swarm and eat you.
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