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Peacocks have the bright feathers. Fish have the long tails. Women have the mall.

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Long, Tails, Malls

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Courage is a fickle creature. Just as you need it, it often makes excuses and rushes out of the room.

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Needs, Fickle, Rooms

Janette Rallison (2010). “My Fair Godmother”, p.4, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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The next level. As though dating were a computer game.

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Games, Dating, Next Level

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Perhaps I wasn't going crazy after all. Perhaps I was just becoming a writer.

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Crazy, Becoming, Going Crazy

Janette Rallison (2009). “Just One Wish”, p.79, Penguin

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Goose neck is a delicacy. You have to at least try it. In fancy restaurants people pay up to fifty dollars a plate for this stuff.' And at our house we were force-fed it for free. Just another irony of life.

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People, House, Trying

Janette Rallison (2009). “All's Fair in Love, War and High School”, p.34, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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Guys can smell desperation. It triggers an instinct in them to run far and fast so they aren't around when a woman starts peeling apart her heart.

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Running, Heart, Smell

Janette Rallison (2010). “My Fair Godmother”, p.13, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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Adults are constantly telling teenagers that it's what's on the inside that matters. It's always painful to find out that adults have lied to you.

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Teenager, Adults, Matter

Janette Rallison (2010). “My Fair Godmother”, p.9, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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Happy people are rarely interesting.

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People, Interesting, Happy People

Janette Rallison (2010). “My Fair Godmother”, p.7, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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Madame Bellwings, Memoir Elf Coordinator, was not at all pleased with this request, because elves who write the memoirs of teenage girls have the habit of returning to the magical realm with atrocious grammar. They can't seem to shake the phrases "watever" and "no way," and they insert the word like into so many sentences that the other elves start slapping them...and for no apparent reason occasionally call out the name Edward Cullen.

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Girl, Teenage, Writing

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A few moments later Mom opened my door and peered in at me. "Logan Hansen is here to see you." If it had been anyone else in the world, I would have told my mother to send him away. Santa Claus himself could have shown up to explain his whereabouts since my childhood, and I would have turned him out.

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Mom, Mother, Doors

Janette Rallison (2009). “All's Fair in Love, War and High School”, p.179, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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Blackmailers never explain their thinking. They're like pirates that way. Dark-hearted, dangerous--- and cool like Johnny Depp.

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Dark, Thinking, Pirate

Janette Rallison (2009). “How to Take the Ex Out of Ex-Boyfriend”, p.69, Penguin

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You know, sometimes you've got to trust the people you love. You've got to trust that if they're good people, they'll make good decisions.

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Love You, People, Decision

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New York is a nice place." "If you like concrete, crowds, and that claustrophobic, closed-in feeling.

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New York, Nice, Feelings

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Perhaps selling your children, your future, just happened one bad decision at a time.

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Children, Decision, Selling

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As if finding a guy to solve your problems isn't a contradiction of terms.

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Guy, Problem, Contradiction

Janette Rallison (2009). “How to Take the Ex Out of Ex-Boyfriend”, p.47, Penguin

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Wishes are powerful things. You can't expect them to change the world without changing you too.

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Powerful, Wish, World

Janette Rallison (2011). “My Unfair Godmother”, p.167, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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Very often the lessons you learn are more important than the things you accomplish

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Important, Lessons, Accomplish

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...and her dreams that didn't happen, that couldn't have happened because she'd pinned them on somebody too broken and unattainable to love her back.

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Dream, Broken, Unattainable

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I can't believe you just did that! Are you crazy?" I gripped the steering wheel tighter. "Why do people keep asking me that?" He turned to stare at me, his eyes worried. "Who else keeps asking you that? Are any of them doctors?

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Crazy, Believe, Eye

Janette Rallison (2009). “Just One Wish”, p.106, Penguin

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Fairy's side note: Even people who don't believe in magic really do.

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Believe, People, Magic

Janette Rallison (2010). “My Fair Godmother”, p.10, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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Well you can't believe everything you read. After all, by definition, fiction writers lie for a living.

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Lying, Believe, Fiction

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Don't just read words,' he would tell her as he held up the latest story, 'devour them. Let the words create new worlds.

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Stories, World, New World

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The only things you can truly love after such a short time are ice cream flavors and comfortable shoes.

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Ice Cream, Shoes, Flavor

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That's the magic of books. They're never quite the same for any two people. When you read one, you automatically make it your own.

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Book, Two, People

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Aren't fairy godmothers supposed to be nice and make you feel better about yourself? ...No, you're confusing fairy godmothers with sales clerks.

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Nice, Feel Better, Confusing

Janette Rallison (2010). “My Fair Godmother”, p.89, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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