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“Are you going to kiss me?" I blabbered stupidly.
"I'm working up the nerve," he said softly.”
― Double Clutch
"I'm working up the nerve," he said softly.”
― Double Clutch
“Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous.”
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“Relax; the world's not watching that closely. It's too busy contemplating itself in the mirror.”
― Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
― Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“You talk more when you're nervous," he said, still standing close to her.
"No i don't. That's absurd. I'm just trying to explain to you-"
"Do i make you nervous?"
"No. I'm not nervous."
"You're trembling."
"I'm cold. I'm wearing practically zero clothes."
His glance went to her lips, then back to her eyes. "I noticed.”
― Prom Nights from Hell
"No i don't. That's absurd. I'm just trying to explain to you-"
"Do i make you nervous?"
"No. I'm not nervous."
"You're trembling."
"I'm cold. I'm wearing practically zero clothes."
His glance went to her lips, then back to her eyes. "I noticed.”
― Prom Nights from Hell
“It’s like this: Me: Hey, brain. Let’s think of something cool to say!
Brain: UHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
Me: Okay, it doesn’t have to be cool. Just something semi-coherent . . .
Brain: UHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
Me: COME ON, BRAIN, GIVE ME SOMETHING.
Brain: white noise
Shit. Shit. Shit.”
― The Upside of Unrequited
Brain: UHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
Me: Okay, it doesn’t have to be cool. Just something semi-coherent . . .
Brain: UHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
Me: COME ON, BRAIN, GIVE ME SOMETHING.
Brain: white noise
Shit. Shit. Shit.”
― The Upside of Unrequited
“But the things that make other people nervous have never scared me. I'm not afraid of men in golf carts or horror movies or roller coasters. I didn't know precisely what I was afraid of, but it wasn't this.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“If I am not at 'peace', then I can be altogether confident that I've placed a larger 'piece' of myself in the hands of someone other than God.”
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“Peachy. Alrighty, then. She’d just get in her car, run home to check her clothes, hair, and makeup, walk across the street to Jason’s apartment, knock on his door, stare at his masculine hotness in stupid adoration, probably insert her foot into her mouth fifty-five times in under five minutes, then go back to her place and relive the embarrassment all night long while replaying what she should’ve done or said had she been a sophisticated woman, instead of a blundering moron.
Done and done. Piece of cake.”
― Residual Burn
Done and done. Piece of cake.”
― Residual Burn
“That. That right there was exactly how the slippery slope into Humiliation-ville began.”
― Residual Burn
― Residual Burn
“I feel as though I can chew up nails and spit out a barbed wire fence.”
― Speaking Up for Each Other: A Collection of Short Stories for Tweens and Middle Grade Readers
― Speaking Up for Each Other: A Collection of Short Stories for Tweens and Middle Grade Readers
“All we need to do is get those nervous butterflies in our stomachs flying in formation.”
― Encouragement: How to Be and Find the Best
― Encouragement: How to Be and Find the Best
“Do you ever get so nervous that you pass straight through terror and come out the other side? And then you stop being scared and you start being reckless?”
― Always Human
― Always Human
“For me, reading was never an antisocial activity. It was deeply social. It was the most profound kind of socialising there was. A deep connection to the imagination of another human being. A way to connect without the many filters society normally demands.”
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“Why am I so awkward? I groan to my flats as I pull them on and rush out the door.”
― The OCD Games: A Christmas Romance Novella
― The OCD Games: A Christmas Romance Novella
“He swallowed nervously, but in a schoolboy crush kind of way. She was so beautiful. He had been admiring her beauty for the past few days, but it never seemed right to act on it. Somehow, things felt more normal being in his home. It was like the past few days were just a crazy nightmare that had finally ended, except it didn’t. It was only on hold for a while, but it was long enough to act on his feelings. He wanted this woman badly. Everything about her was absolutely perfect!”
― The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
― The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“He tried to hide how nervous he felt. If this experimental serum worked it would change his whole life. That meant everything to him. He closed his eyes and prayed to himself.”
― The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
― The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“The whole time I was in the meeting [with Aaron Spelling], I was imagining him with blue troll doll hair. That's what I often did so I wouldn't be nervous.”
― Brave
― Brave
“They were obviously all feeling a bit jumpy. The coffee probably didn’t help, although some of them swore they needed it. Craved it was more like it.”
― The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
― The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“I stop, staring into the teardrop-shaped room, my heartbeat an alive and determined creature trying to claw its way out of my throat.”
― Ice Like Fire
― Ice Like Fire
“When they got to their hotel she went straight up to bed, but he paused to get a drink. There was, in the vestibule, a flower stall and he bought a handful of roses, stiffly wired into a bouquet, before proceeding to the oppressive gorgeousness of their bridal suite. The lift was lined with looking glass, so that as he shot upwards he got an endlessly duplicated version of himself, stout and nervous, a light cloak flung over his shoulder and flowers in his hand: an infinitely long row of gentlemen carrying offerings to an unforgiving past.”
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“Precedent forces us to suppose that later generations will one day walk around our houses with the same attitude of horror and amusement with which we now consider many of the possessions of the dead. They will marvel at our wallpapers and our sofas and laugh at aesthetic crimes to which we are impervious. This awareness can lend to our affections a fragile, nervous quality.”
― The Architecture of Happiness
― The Architecture of Happiness
“Now she hesitated, wondering whether she dare do what she wanted . . . but surely, if they were best friends, it was all right?”
― Troubled Blood
― Troubled Blood
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