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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."

"Aside from the obvious, Francesca, what do you want in return for supplying information? Bones asked, getting back to the subject. 'You to take me, she replied at once. 'Not gonna happen! I spat, squeezing him possessively. Three sets of widened eyes fixed on me. That's when I realized that what I had a firm grip on was no longer his hand."

"Okay, I've lied to him. But you saw how jealous he gets. It makes me feel like I have to. And I shouldn't defend my right to be friends with another guy."

"A bachelor always feels himself defrauded, when he knows or suspects that any woman of his acquaintance has given herself away."

"Jealousy has always been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the Bad Seed."

"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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"We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves."

"When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness."

"Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with."

"No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will."

"There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means."

"Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed."

"There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of."
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