Powertrain Engines Quotes & Sayings

Two weeks later I'm the last one in the locker room to change for gym. The click of heels makes me look up. It's Carmen Sanchez. I don't freak out. Instead, I stand and look right at her.
"He was back in Fairfield, you know," she tells me.
"I know," I say, remembering the hand warmers in my locker. But he left. Like a whisper, he was there and then disappeared.
She looks almost nervous, vulnerable. "You know those giant stuffed-animal prizes at the carnival? The kind practically nobody wins, except the lucky few? I've never won one."
"Yeah. I've never won one, either."
"Alex was my giant prize. I hated you for taking him away," she admits.
I shrug. "Yeah, well, stop hating me. I don't have him, either."
"I don't hate you anymore," she says. "I've moved on."
I swallow and then say, "Me, too."
Carmen chuckles. Then, just as she walks out of the room, I hear her mumble, "Alex sure as hell hasn't."
What's that supposed to mean? — Simone Elkeles

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Once a week we go to juvenile hall and talk to boys there. Just go and spend a day in the juvenile courts. — Lisa Bonet

To acquire style, begin by affecting none. — William Strunk Jr.

I have always been a sucker for ballads, but you have to be careful these days, you can't overload people. — Joe Cocker

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(Not every doctor can look into a mouse's ear without laughing) — E.B. White

If you fall then that's not all ... if you wish to be down then stay down ... if you wish to be up then get up. — Janice Markowitz

As a piece of rope, when burnt, retains its form, but cannot serve to bind, so is the ego which is burnt by the fire of supreme Knowledge. — Ramakrishna