I didn’t want to remind her that I was the reason she was trapped in electric bills and kid’s shoes grown too small, the reason she was clawing at the windows like Michaels dying tomatoes. She was a beautiful woman dragging a crippled foot and I was that foot. I was bricks sewn into the hem of her clothes, I was a steel dress.
– Janet Fitch, White Oleander, page 12
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Published September 1st 2006 by Little, Brown and Company
I thought clay must feel happy in the good potter’s hand.
– Janet Fitch, White Oleander, page 11
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ebook, 345 pages
Published September 1st 2006 by Little, Brown and Company
My mother was not herself in the time of the Santa Anas. I was twelve years old and I was afraid for her.
– Janet Fitch, White Oleander, page 7
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ebook, 345 pages
Published September 1st 2006 by Little, Brown and Company
My mom says we look so much alike that I could use her for a shaving mirror.
– Beau Swan, Life and Death by Stephenie Meyer
UM OK skipping past all the obvious jokes about why that would absolutely not work and just going right to: WHO WOULD EVEN SAY SOMETHING THAT DUMB?
I suppose I should try to find a balance, but that seems harder.
– Anna Kendrick, Scrappy Little Nobody, page 262
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Hardcover, 275 pages
Published November 15th 2016 by Touchstone Books
It’s like how every guy I know has told me a story about going to Hooters and how the waitress seemed “grateful” to finally have a customer who was “cool and fun.” Definitely not bullshit!
– Anna Kendrick, Scrappy Little Nobody, page 233
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Hardcover, 275 pages
Published November 15th 2016 by Touchstone Books
It took an older man saying point-blank “I like giving you advice” for me to realize that yes, that’s the bit you like. Not being helpful to me, but the sound of your authority reverberating in the ears of a younger woman.
– Anna Kendrick, Scrappy Little Nobody, page 124
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Hardcover, 275 pages
Published November 15th 2016 by Touchstone Books
I’ve still got stuff to work on. If a guy can convince me he has the answers or a better plan than me, I will follow him anywhere. I’ve fallen for it more than once. It’s not easy to pull off, because I happen to think most people are idiots, but if you can do it, I’m in trouble.
– Anna Kendrick, Scrappy Little Nobody, page 124
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Hardcover, 275 pages
Published November 15th 2016 by Touchstone Books
Some dudes like to say that men have the instinct to spread their seed, while women are supposed to protect their reproductive organs from everything but the best sperm for the strongest potential offspring. By that logic every woman in the world should be saving herself for Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and never let any of you shitheads touch her. Seriously, you guys should stop using that argument.
– Anna Kendrick, Scrappy Little Nobody, page 119
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Hardcover, 275 pages
Published November 15th 2016 by Touchstone Books
By fifth grade, I cracked a major development in strategy. I needed to get boys to talk to me. I wasn’t pretty, but I could make them like me through the magic of conversation, or at least trick them into revealing some actionable knowledge and go from there.
– Anna Kendrick, Scrappy Little Nobody, page 89
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Hardcover, 275 pages
Published November 15th 2016 by Touchstone Books
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