Jenny Ireland > Quotes

“And I would miss her. Yeah, she'd hurt me, but all the good stuff over all our years as friends didn't just get erased. But at the same time, maybe a break would be good for us.”
― Jenny Ireland, The First Move

“I hated talking about Tara like this. It brought back all the good memories. Stuff we did as kids; promises to be best friends forever; when we told each other all our secrets. And now? It just made me sad.”
― Jenny Ireland, The First Move

“But what if Mr Tsang says something to Mrs Harrison about me leaving with my brother and she'll be like, "Jules doesn't have a brother" and he'll be like, "We've been swindled!”
― Jenny Ireland, The First Move

“She hung on to my arm the whole way back to my house, talking about this party next week. The party I wished was fucking over so I wouldn't have to hear about it again. But I guess after this there'd be another party, and another. And maybe that's what high school was supposed to be, an endless stream of pathetic distractions from the real world. It was probably OK for them - they never had anything in their perfect lives to make them realize that all this shit was fucking pointless.”
― Jenny Ireland, The First Move

“I remember Mum took me here one time and it was freezing like this. I remember asking where all the flowers were. She said they weren't ready yet and that she liked it now almost as much as in the spring when all the flowers were out. She said it was the potential that something so beautiful could come from nothing. Or something like that.”
― Jenny Ireland, The Boy Next Door

“Triple chocolate brownie with salted caramel sauce, oh, and waffles with cream and chocolate sauce. Please.' I stared at her in disgust. 'Complicated and ridiculously sweet. That fits, I guess.”
― Jenny Ireland, The First Move

“You just walk around like you're better than everyone else, dropping salad on people, acting like you don't care about anything or anyone.”
― Jenny Ireland, The First Move