Jinx Quotes
"This is the kind of luck I have. The kind of luck I've had since before Mom even filled out my birth certificate."
"It was all the dirty looks that did it—made me realize I was really in New York City. At last."
"Like maybe Aunt Evelyn and Uncle Ted just forgot I was arriving today."
"So much for getting a fresh new start in a place where no one knew me by my less-than-flattering nickname."
"I thought maybe I could be buzzed twenty-four seven."
"I had to leave home, and all my friends, and the school in which, I'll admit, I'd been pretty popular."
"I tried not to let my shock show. A beer? Tory was offering me a beer?"
"I should have known better. I should have had an answer ready."
"I had a little different impression—that Zach had been staring at me."
"I didnt care that Tory loved him. And I didnt care that he, in turn, loved Petra."
"That just goes to show how really rotten my luck is, after all."
"Having chores to perform, just like the ones I'd left behind, made me feel less lonely and more like I belonged to the Gardiner family."
"I didn't exactly mind. I genuinely liked my younger cousins because they reminded me of my own brothers and sisters."
"Your allowance. Aunt Evelyn passed Tory an identical bill."
"I suspected the Gardiners had done more than this, even."
"I did not deserve one more cent of their money. But they apparently felt differently."
"Honestly, Jean, Aunt Evelyn said, I owe you at least as much for looking after Teddy and Alice every Wednesday."
"If you can play an instrument, you'll always fit in with the orchestra crowd."
"But I tried to talk about her to him as little as possible."
"I could forget all the horrible things I was running away from, and just relax."
"My stomach didn't even hurt when I was with him."
"But when we finally reached East Ninth Street between Second and First Avenues, I realized that Zach really was going to think I was stupid."
"I paused, reached into the bag, and started unwrapping the tissue."
"It's not a Satanic symbol, I said in a tight voice. In the slanting rays of the setting sun, the silver necklace winked from its nest of tissue."
"The pentacle is an ancient magical symbol, meant to offer spiritual protection for its wearer."
"Horrified to find my eyes welling up with tears right there on the sidewalk outside a small body-piercing boutique, I slipped the necklace back into the bag."
"I took the bag the saleslady was holding out for me, thanked her, and turned away from the counter."
"You're clearly such a powerful witch! Let me see...you and your white-trash parents live in a house that's too small for you."
"You're a straight-A, knock-kneed orchestra geek."
"Embrace your gift, Jean. Never fear it. It's a part of who you are, after all."
"The truth was, for the first time in my life, things were going really well."
"Because you know what? I...I don't even care anymore."
"It's not that, Zach said. It's just that you don't think this is all sort of...Jean, Tory said."
"How could I have been so stupid? How could I have actually thought she had changed?"
"It was just a game. I found this spell book at school, see, and...well, our grandmother always told us."
"I told myself not to panic. It was probably only some kind of stupid hazing ritual."
"Oh, Zach, please don't tell Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner about this, she begged."
"I said, 'Never! I will never surrender my power! I've embraced it! I don't fear it anymore!'"
"Come on, Zach said, slipping an arm around my waist. Lean on me."
"But my voice was still too rusty from the gag, and all that came out was, Mouche."
"I have a feeling now Zach was looking down at my lips no one's going to be calling you Jinx anymore."
"Zach was right about one other thing, too: No one calls me Jinx anymore. Now it's just Jean."