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"We straighten , bu our snickering is barely contained as we attempt to focus our attention on a picture of a discarded Coke can. 'This guy's lady love is kind of a slob, don't you think?' he whispers.I cover my mouth with my hands again.'A reaaaaaaaal litterbug.'Stop it,' I hiss. My eyes are watering. 'Ohmygod look at this one! How did he get her toenail clippings?'If you were my girl,' he whispers, 'I'd take creepy pictures of your trash when I knew you weren't looking.'If you were my girl,' I whisper back,' I'd put the creepy pictures in a foreign museum so you wouldn't know that I take creepy pictures."
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"Jealousy blurs the focus."
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"Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ."
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"If you ever pull a switcheroo like that again, Dee, I'm going to offer your boyfriend ten thousand dollars to make out with Alice for two minutes."
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"Envy: Instead of focusing on your own goals, your goal becomes throwing off the rails other people's goals and at the end of the day you gain nothing but a mischievous satisfaction that you have destroyed someone's dream."
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"There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room."
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"Jealousy appears to be a redoubtable pitfall for love, on the toll road of self-absorption and unshareability. When love has to remain cloistered and ostentatiously exclusionary, envy may show its pernicious power, cause wounding harms and unchain emotional twisters. ['Why has Shé got stars in the sky?']"
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"In jealousy there is more of self - love than love."
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"Jealousy's eyes are green."
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"Envy is a buzz killer."
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"If people are jealous of you, it means you are worth something."
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"The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you."
Equilibrium
"For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home."
Home
"I just can't fathom why anyone would stand on a ledge when there's a respectable amount of walking space right next to it."
Humor
"I mean . . . I don't know. I don't know what I want to do, or who I want to be, or where I want to live. I don't know. I like reading about adventure, sure, but I also like doing it from the safety of home. But what is home, besides a quilt-covered bed? Where is it?"
Identity
"It gets worse. Josh tell her that he loves her. She says it back. He touches her. She touches him back. And then they're losing their virginity on the floor of her bedroom beside her pet rabbit, Isis. A rabbit.Josh literally lost his virginity in front of a metaphor for sex."
Faith
"Crushes are so awful. I wonder if they suck worse for the crush-er or the crush-ee. I consider my three years of watching Josh from afar. Yeah, definitely the crush-er."
Insight
"I bought you love poetry! 'I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.' I blink at him. 'Neruda. I starred the passage. God,' he moans. 'Why didn't you open it?"
Poetry
"It's so Hogwarts."
Fantasy
"You're the most incredible girl I've ever known. You're gorgeous and smart, and you make me laugh like no-one else can. And I can talk to you. And I know after all this I don't deserve you, but what I'm trying to say is that I love you, Anna. Very Much."
Success
"Thank you for helping my sister, he says.I lean forward, mimicking his position. 'I'm happy to.Calliope leans out her window. 'STOP FLIRTING AND GET BACK TO WORK."
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