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#1

“And then she got a bad, bad feeling because she realized she had been wrong.
You can fool a person.
You can fool a dog.
You can fool a cat or a horse or a teacher or a friend.
But you cannot ever fool a heart.”
― Barbara O'Connor, Greetings from Nowhere

tags: barbara-o-connor, greetings-from-nowhere, heart, motel, smoky-mountains

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#2

“Non calor sed umor est qui nobis incommodat.
It's not the heat, it's the humidity.”
― Autumn Cornwell, Carpe Diem

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#3

“But Milo had a shiny gold present to open, and presents trumped sad trees any day of the week.”
― Kate Milford, Greenglass House

tags: greenglass, milford

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#4

“You'd think that a redheaded boy with glasses who was named Howard and had an up-down walk would have a lot more to wish for than being friends with me. But I admit I felt a smile on my face and hope in my heart, 'cause maybe wishes really do come true. Maybe some wishes just take longer than others.”
― Barbara O'Connor, Wish

tags: friend, friends, hope, southern, wish, wishes

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#5

“My eye was drawn to a bright green hue, the same shade as a poisonous Amazonian frog, the tiny, delightfully deadly ones.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

tags: eleanor-oliphant, frog, funny, gail-honeyman, humor, nail-polish

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“The gilded confines of the Beauty Hall were not my preferred habitat; like the chicken that had laid the eggs for my sandwich, I was more of a free-range creature.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

tags: chicken, eggs, eleanor-oliphant, funny, gail-honeyman, humor, sandwich

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“I had no idea how to respond, and opted for a smile, which serves me well on most occasions (not if it's something to do with death or illness, though -- I know that now.)”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

tags: death, eleanor-oliphant, funny, gail-honeyman, humor, smile

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#8

“I simply didn't know how to make things better. I could not solve the puzzle of me.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

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#9

“I’m not sure I’d like to be burned. I think I might like to be fed to zoo animals. It would be both environmentally friendly and a lovely treat for the larger carnivores. Could you request that?”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

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#10

“I pondered what else I should take for him. Flowers seemed wrong; they're a love token, after all. I looked in the fridge, and popped a packet of cheese slices into the bag. All men like cheese.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

tags: cheese, eleanor-oliphant, funny, gail-honeyman, gift, humor

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#11

“We were riding the 7:04 a.m. ferry crossing the Puget Sound to the Seattle Academy of Academic Excellence. The sky was overcast with streaks of gray, tufts of white, and shards of sun. Drizzling. All our fellow students who lived in Port Ann made the hour ferry ride to and from Seattle every day. We didn't mind--it gave us two hours a day to do our advanced placement homework, practice our Latin, and eat fries.”
― Autumn Cornwell, Carpe Diem

tags: autumn-cornwell, humor, overachiever, young-adult

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#12

“Obscenity is the distinguishing hallmark of a sadly limited vocabulary.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

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#13

“Being brave was tiring. No wonder everybody in Conley Holler looked faded and worn out.”
― Lisa Lewis Tyre, Hope in the Holler

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“There was almost no flat land, so any houses either sat right near the road, or perched on the side of the mountain. They clung there, like dingy moths sitting on velvet drapes, and I half expected them to take flight at any second.”
― Lisa Lewis Tyre, Hope in the Holler

tags: hope-in-the-holler, lisa-lewis-tyre, middle-grade, poor

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“For somebody who's not afraid, you sure run fast.”
― Lisa Lewis Tyre, Hope in the Holler

tags: fear, hope-in-the-holler, humor, lisa-lewis-tyre, middle-grade-book, wit

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#16

“It was morning. Sunlight filtered in with the smell of burnt toast.”
― Marjorie Hart, Summer at Tiffany

tags: morning

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#17

“Delivery boys always look a little sketchy, like they're the kids the malls don't want to hire.”
― Jennifer L. Holm, The Fourteenth Goldfish

tags: delivery-boys, humor

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#18

“I'd had no idea that cheese was a miracle.”
― Jennifer L. Holm, The Fourteenth Goldfish

tags: cheese

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#19

“You're a rainbow in a sometimes dark world. Keep shining, my Alice-girl. Keep shining.”
― Tamara Bundy, Walking with Miss Millie

tags: encouragement, rainbow

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#20

“I just stood there on top of the picnic table like I was auditioning to be a vase of flowers.”
― Tamara Bundy, Walking with Miss Millie

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#21

“Whenever Ida pointed celery at him, she meant business.”
― Fannie Flagg, The Whole Town's Talking

tags: celery, humor

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#22

“The problem was that Norvaleen had been in denial and also in McDonald's, eating the cheeseburger special with fries. Evidently, the Diet Coke had not evened out the calories. What a shock.”
― Fannie Flagg, The Whole Town's Talking

tags: humor, mcdonald-s

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#23

“My so-called bedroom has purple floral wallpaper and a polished secretary desk with claw feet like a monster. It has a fireplace that looks like it hasn't been lit for two hundred years. Clear as day, no child has ever inhabited that room. I don't see why I have to be the courageous pioneer.”
― Gail Shepherd, The True History of Lyndie B. Hawkins

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#24

“You'd best take care, what you lend your heart to.”
― Gail Shepherd, The True History of Lyndie B. Hawkins

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#25

“You might travel to the other side of the world, but in the end it made no difference: whatever devastating unhappiness was inside you would come too.”
― Rachel Joyce, Miss Benson's Beetle

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“It was so easy to find yourself doing the things in life you weren’t passionate about, to stick with them even when you didn’t want them and they hurt. But now the time for dreaming and wishing was over, and she was going. She was traveling to the other side of the world. It wasn’t just the ship that had been unmoored. It was her entire sense of herself.”
― Rachel Joyce, Miss Benson's Beetle

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#27

“The delicate needle on the scale moved more and more slowly -- she seemed to be putting on weight, even as she stood there. Maybe it also weighed the heaviness in your heart.”
― Rachel Joyce, Miss Benson's Beetle

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“... Margery took in that view and got the strangest sense that everything she wanted was ahead and available, so long as she was brave enough to claim it.”
― Rachel Joyce, Miss Benson’s Beetle

tags: bravery, courage, hope

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#29

“Just because you've never done something doesn't mean you can't start.”
― Rachel Joyce, Miss Benson's Beetle

tags: beginning, starting, trying

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