Sonya Sones Quotes

• I know this sounds incredibly lame,
  but I don't want losing my virginity
  to feel like I'm losing something.
  I want it to feel like I'm finding something.
  I want sex to be amazing.
  I want it to be life-alteringly wonderful.
  And I want it to happen with someone I love.

  Sonya Sones

  Sex, Sound, Lame

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• The only thing worse than not getting what you want, is getting it.

  Sonya Sones

  Getting What You Want, Want, What You Want

  Sonya Sones (2010). “What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know”, p.312, Simon and Schuster

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• There’s something so great about this,” she whispers. About what?” I whisper back. About this,” she whispers. About being outlaws. It’s just you and me—against the world.

  Sonya Sones

  World, Me Against The World, Outlaw

  Sonya Sones (2010). “What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• She flashes me a smile so devastating that it could even make an atheist believe in God.

  Sonya Sones

  Atheist, Believe, Believe In God

  Sonya Sones (2007). “What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know”, p.175, Simon and Schuster

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• But most days, I wander around feeling invisible. Like I'm a speck of dust floating in the air that can only be seen when a shaft of light hits it.

  Sonya Sones

  Light, Air, Dust

  Sonya Sones (2013). “One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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• My parents are great listeners Which is why I never tell them anything

  Sonya Sones

  Parent, Listeners

  Sonya Sones (2007). “What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• Human beings tend to be conservative, so if you lie, you'll probably be closer to the truth.

  Sonya Sones

  Lying, Conservative, Humans

  Sonya Sones (2010). “What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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• Walking with Murphy through the bone-freezing chill toward the bus stop, I start shivering. And somehow, when he slips his arm around me to warm me up, it feels right. Righter than anything ever has.

  Sonya Sones

  Bus Stops, Arms, Chill

  Sonya Sones (2010). “What My Mother Doesn't Know”, p.206, Simon and Schuster

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• I wish he hadn't gone and cut his hair. He looks about eight years old. His ears have tripled in size. Everyone's started calling him Dumbo. Which wouldn't be so bad, except they've started calling me Mrs. Dumbo. You can't even tell he's got curly hair anymore. There's nothing left to run my fingers through. Just this weird blond AstroTurf sprouting out of his skull.

  Sonya Sones

  Running, Cutting, Curly Hair

  Sonya Sones (2013). “What My Mother Doesn't Know”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• The golden moment when I’m not yet awake enough to remember that there are things I would rather forget.

  Sonya Sones

  Golden Moments, Remember, Forget

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• Ready or not, here I come I'm so tired of this dumb game of hide and seek Olly olly oxen free Show yourself, you're scaring me Come out, come out, where ever you are You've taken this thing way too far

  Sonya Sones

  Taken, Tired, Oxen

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• To take estrogen or not to take estrogen:
  That is the question.
  Whether 'tis nobler to abstain and suffer
  The sweat and puddles of outrageous flashes
  Or to take arms against a sea of mood swings,
  And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
  No more; at first the studies say 'twill end
  The heart attacks and thousand bouts of bloat
  That flesh is heir to, 'tis a true confusion -
  For then they say 'twill cause us all to die
  Perchance from breast cancer; ay, there's the rub;
  For who can dream or even sleep while worrying about
  What doctors might be saying come next week?

  Sonya Sones

  Dream, Cancer, Heart

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• Culture Clash Dylan says when I meet his mother today I shouldn't mention that I'm Jewish. I say okay, but can I tell her about the HIV postive thing? He gives me a look. I give him one back

  Sonya Sones

  Mother, Giving, Hiv

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• You're thinking I'm a hopelessly romantic idiot. And you know what? You're right.

  Sonya Sones

  Thinking, Idiot, Knows

  Sonya Sones (2010). “What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• When we kiss, his lips on mine are like CPR-- breathing the life back into me.

  Sonya Sones

  Kissing, Cpr, Breathing

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• Friends don't let friends commit social suicide.

  Sonya Sones

  Suicide, Social, Commit

  Sonya Sones (2010). “What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes I just know things.

  Sonya Sones

  Sometimes, Knows

  Sonya Sones (2010). “What My Mother Doesn't Know”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• We've turned off all the lights in the living room to make hand shadows. We've got this big flashlight aimed at the wall. I make the silhouette of my hand into a duck. Robin makes his into a rabbit. Now my duck kisses his rabbit And-POOF!- it turns into a turkey. And for some reason this strikes us as hysterically funny. But you probably had to be there.

  Sonya Sones

  Wall, Kissing, Light

  Sonya Sones (2013). “What My Mother Doesn't Know”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

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• Madame V begins the lesson by reading aloud the first stanza of a famous French poem: Il pleure dans mon coeur Comme il pleut sur la ville; Quelle est cette langueur Qui penetre mon coeur? Then she looks up and without any warning she calls on me to translate it. I swallow hard, and try: "It's raining in my heart like it's raining in the city. What is this sadness that pierces my heart?" Saying these words out loud, right in front of the whole class, makes me feel like I'm not wearing any clothes.

  Sonya Sones

  Rain, Reading, Heart

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• But Lunch Isn't That Bad, Really Once I get used to having to eat with two people instead of one. Two people who have known each other for such a long time that they practically speak in code. Two people who are always saying, "Remember the time when this happened?" and "Remember the time when that happened?" (Which, of course, I never do, because I wasn't there.) Well, okay, it is that bad. It sucks, even.

  Sonya Sones

  Two, Lunch, Long

  Sonya Sones (2007). “What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• What my mother doesnt know wont hurt her

  Sonya Sones

  Mother, Hurt, Knows

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