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“I looked at Wes’s stupid face, his beautiful, awful, terrible face, and just couldn’t believe he was actually there.”
― Lynn Painter, Nothing Like the Movies

“There were very few people in the world I respected as much as I respected Helena.”
― Lynn Painter, Nothing Like the Movies

“I trailed off when I saw her. She. Was. There. Holy shit. Libby was standing in the living room.”
― Lynn Painter, Nothing Like the Movies

“Everyone wanted to romanticize my story, to act like it was this charming story arc that went something like: boy has everything and loses it, boy works hard, boy gets it all back. The end. But the reality was more like: boy does something that causes his family to lose everything, boy destroys girl in the process, boy goes home because he has no other choice, boy hits rock bottom, boy works his ass off, boy gets back, but now can he stay back?”
― Lynn Painter, Nothing Like the Movies