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“And you've screwed me up, Lib, because now I'm thinking in lyrics instead of original thoughts. I'm look at you and trying to find the words to convince you to be with me, and do you know what comes into you head? You showed me colors you know I can't see with anyone else. They aren't my words, I don't even know what song of album they're from, for God's sake, but it's exactly how I feel. And you taught me a secret language I can't speak with anyone else-like, I can't remember who wrote that, but I feel it down to the marrow in my bones. Being with you has changed the threads of my existence, I swear to God, so now being without you makes everything quieter, dimmer and duller. So. Much. Smaller.”
― Lynn Painter, Nothing Like the Movies

“When the odds are bad,” she said, removing something from one of them, “you change the rules.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Killer Instinct

“there were two kinds of optimists in the world: those who hoped and those who madly persevered.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Glorious Rivals

“Elizabeth fucking Bennett, ladies and gentlemen.
Buxbaum.
Ahem. Elizabeth fucking Buxbaum.”
― Lynn Painter, Nothing Like the Movies