The Shy Girl & the Jock Next Door Quotes

“Life was too short to get caught up in the mean-girl machinations of the Lindas of the world.”
― M.L. Collins, The Shy Girl & the Jock Next Door

“Have you ever wanted anything so badly and then it almost lands right in your hands, only to be snatched away? That’s a bit how it felt when Shay told me that her parents thought she was my girlfriend. I had been in love with Shay MacNeil since the third grade. I know some people might laugh at that, being that we were kids but what I felt for her was real. And the older we got and the more we grew up the deeper I fell for her.”
― M.L. Collins, The Shy Girl & the Jock Next Door

“Just remember that when kids are mean and jerky—because some definitely will be—that’s about them, not you. It still hurts, but you’ll get through this and they’ll probably always be buttheads.”
― M.L. Collins, The Shy Girl & the Jock Next Door

“Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.”
― M.L. Collins, The Shy Girl & the Jock Next Door

“MY FAITHFUL COMPANIONS: INSECURITY & FEAR”
― M.L. Collins, The Shy Girl & the Jock Next Door

“TREAT OTHERS AS YOU’D LIKE TO BE TREATED”
― M.L. Collins, The Shy Girl & the Jock Next Door