Double Cross Quotes
"I'm too nice, that's my trouble, I thought sourly. Why on earth didn't I just tell her that I wasn't interested in a date or anything else for that matter?"
"Rearrange this sentence: hell – freezes – over – when."
"Remember it. Take a photo. Break out your camcorder. I don't give a rat's bum. Just move."
"If looks could kill, I'd be seriously ill."
"Every time I want to sit down next to you or be within half a kilometre of you, I can't move without tripping over that girl first. What's up with that?"
I have my whole family beside me," she told me when I asked her about it. "That's what makes it so special.
"I buried my face in my hands. I didn't want to see or be seen. At times like this, I just wanted to crawl away and find a place to hide from the world. Hide from myself."
What d'you smell of?" "Why? Is it minging?" "You smell of biscuits." "Thanks." "That's a compliment.
"There ain't one person who walks all over me."
"You even think about making a move on Callie and I'll break every bone in your body. And when you're buried, I'll dig you up to break each bone all over again."
"Some of the regular punters think that T&A comes free with their dessert."
"It's the last gasp of a terrorist group who're about to become obsolete."
"It's not like in films and games and on the TV. What had happened at the Wasteland hadn't been choreographed into chaotic elegance."
"I've got you, Callie. I've got you. I'll never let you go. Never."
"I would've swapped places with Callie quicker than a thought."
"I don't know what you mean," I mumbled, deciding to ignore them both till they stopped laughing at me.
"The smaller the person, the smaller the things that mattered."
"It's for Adam Eisner, Flat Eighteen, same address as before."
"You need to stop asking so many questions. It isn't healthy."
"Why don't you just come out and tell your mum that you want to be a teacher?"
"I've spent my entire life running to catch up with you, Tobey."
"Don't worry about the police, Tobey. Once I'm out, I'll take care of you."
"You're still useful to me, Tobey – lucky for you."
"I sat bolt upright, staring a hole through my wall."
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"My admittedly naïve initial plan had been to get close to McAuley. To follow orders – any orders – until I learned something I could use against him."
"I forced a smile. 'We're cool,' I told him."
"I thought long and hard. My memory key was completely corrupt, totally unreadable."
"In the meantime, I maybe had something I could use against him."
"If he managed to retrieve just one file, I was screwed."
"But fear or desperation often drove people to do things that stupidity alone would never make them consider."
"But now I had the memory stick, I'd be stupid to pass up this opportunity."
"The definition of growing up – hiding what you truly feel, suppressing what you really want to do."