Deadly Cool Quotes

“Earthquakes just happen. Tornadoes just happen. Your tongue does not just happen to fall into some other girls mouth!”
― Gemma Halliday, Deadly Cool

“I'll go," he said.
"And that's safer because?"
"I'm a guy."
"Right, and having a pair of dingle balls makes you invincible how?”
― Gemma Halliday, Deadly Cool

“That craptastical, gutless, son-of-a-cactus-humping butt monkey!!”
― Gemma Halliday, Deadly Cool

“I took a deep breath. "I'm sorry I lied, I like your Star Wars sheets, you're not that bad of a driver, and I swear on my Very Cherry lip gloss that I will never lie to you again.”
― Gemma Halliday, Deadly Cool

“Caw! Caw, Hartley, caw!"
Chase narrowed his eyes again.
"Sam?"
I nodded. Then crossed to the window again and called down to Sam. "You can quit squawking. He caught me.”
― Gemma Halliday, Deadly Cool

“In the immortal words of Mr. Burns.......eeeeexcellent.”
― Gemma Halliday, Deadly Cool

“She shot me a sugar-coated smile. I matched it calorie for calorie.”
― Gemma Halliday, Deadly Cool

“I didn't point out that Courtney and I were hardly BFFs. In Mom's world everyone under the age of eighteen was friends with everyone else, like we were all part of some secret society of minors.”
― Gemma Halliday, Deadly Cool

“We actually wanted to ask you a few questions. About the interview you did this morning."
At the mention of her KTVU debut, Caitlyn softened a little. "You saw that?"
I nodded.
"How did I look on camera?"
Her grief was touching.”
― Gemma Halliday, Deadly Cool

“There are three things you never want to find in your boyfriend's locker: a sweaty jockstrap, a D minus on last week's history test, and an empty condom wrapper.
Lucky me, I'd hit the trifecta.”
― Gemma Halliday, Deadly Cool

“No matter how much I may love—scratch that, loved, past tense—Josh, I was no dummy. Everyone knows the Y chromosome carries with it the instinctive urge to lie under pressure.
Which, incidentally, was what Josh was going to be under when I found him. Serious pressure.
On his larynx.”
― Gemma Halliday, Deadly Cool

“Our bodies are our temples. They should have a little more respect for themselves than that.”
“You know, I could have sworn I saw you shoveling Cheetos into your temple last week.”
“Oh, but I’m pretty sure those were nonfat,” Kaylee piped up.
Oh brother.”
― Gemma Halliday, Deadly Cool

“Holy effing crap, that sucks!"
I turned to her. "Effing?"
Sam shrugged. "What?"
"We're censoring now?"
"Kyle says I have a mouth like a trucker.”
― Gemma Halliday, Deadly Cool

“Wow, you know a lot of swear words," Sam commented at one point. "And here I thought I had a dirty mouth."
"What can I say? Apparently candid porn starring my boyfriend brings out the best in me.”
― Gemma Halliday, Deadly Cool

“That craptastical, gutless, son-of-a-cactus humping butt monkey" - Hartley Featherston”
― Gemma Halliday, Deadly Cool

“Which leads me to ask...what exactly are you going to do when we get there?"
I thought about it. "Rip Josh's nuggets off and feed them to his hamster?”
― Gemma Halliday, Deadly Cool

“Mom perched on the edge of our sofa, her forehead etched with a line of concern I'd grown to know well. It was the same one she'd flashed at me when I pointed to the twisty slide, the same one she'd pulled out when I'd taken up Tae Kwon Do in third grade, and the same one that had frozen on her features all through driver's ed last spring. It was her SMother face.”
― Gemma Halliday, Deadly Cool

“Do you know how much a freaking baby costs? A million dollars.”
― Gemma Halliday, Deadly Cool

“While it wasn't a total given that all members of the Color Guard also belonged to the Chastity Club, twirling flags was considered one of the most wholesome activities on campus, meaning the ratio of Chastity girls in Color Guard was something like that of Mormons in Utah.”
― Gemma Halliday, Deadly Cool