Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the Staring Business, after all. So I looked him over and soon it was a staring contest. After a while the boy smiled, and then finally his blue eyes glanced away. When he looked back at me, I flicked my eyebrows up to say, I win. He shrugged
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MARK STUART I told him earlier in the day that I thought he'd do pretty well out there today. He just looked bac... LAWRENCE TYNES ''I froze. Like an idiot I froze. He was staring right at me. (...) He wore an innocent and mesme... SHAWN KIRSTEN MARAVEL I was riding him and he kind of faced me a little bit. He grabbed my leg and tried to roll over, but... KYLE REILLY He seemed to realize she was staring at him, because the cursing stopped. "You cut me," he said. His... CASSANDRA CLARE Alec," Magnus said. He put a hand on his boyfriend’s shoulder; Alec was standing still, staring an... CASSANDRA CLARE He got two text messages that he was a bit uncomfortable about ..he brought them to me and I looked ... PHIL LOVE I kind of did that when I first got back. I got that out of my system. It was only special to me as ... JAMES WILLIS The first thing I remember after the accident is pushing Jerome to get up. He was unconscious and on... 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JOHN GREEN Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone's about to die. JOHN GREEN How can you seperate those things though? The people are the place is the people. JOHN GREEN Tonight, darling, we are going to right a lot of wrongs. And we are going to wrong some rights. The ... JOHN GREEN I hated talking, and I hated listening to everyone else stumble on their words so they wouldn't soun... JOHN GREEN She didn't leave me enough to discover her, but she left me enough to rediscover the Great Perhaps. JOHN GREEN And then I was asleep. That deep, can-still-taste-her-in-my-mouth sleep, that sleep that is not part... JOHN GREEN The way young people speak about one another's bodies says a great deal about our society. In today'... JOHN GREEN Not the brightest gem in the jewelry shop, but you've got to admire his single-minded dedication to ... JOHN GREEN The five of us walking confidently in a row, I'd never felt cooler. The Great Perhaps was upon us, a... JOHN GREEN I walked to Montevallo.' 'Forty miles?!' 'Forty-two,' he corrected me. 'Well. Forty-two th... JOHN GREEN The Colonel explained to me that 1. this was Alaska's room, and that 2. she had a single room becaus... JOHN GREEN We are greater than the sum of our parts. JOHN GREEN It’s very beautiful over there.” I don’t know where there is, but I believe it’s somewhere, ... JOHN GREEN Basra, carrying a torch in one hand and a bucket of water in the other. When someone asked her what ... JOHN GREEN Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, think... JOHN GREEN Големите не осъзнават колко са прави, когато казват с о... JOHN GREEN Que je croie; que tu croies; qu'il ou qu'elle croie. What a funny thing to say over and over again: ... JOHN GREEN Потом я узнала, что мое имя означает. Оно происходит от ... JOHN GREEN Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That’s the problem. Bolívar was talking about ... JOHN GREEN Her underwear, her jeans, the comforter, my corduroys and my boxers between us, I thought. Five laye... JOHN GREEN He told me this while ripping through his duffel bag, throwing clothes into drawers with reckless ab... JOHN GREEN You never know. It's just. It's like. POOF. And you're gone. JOHN GREEN Suffering is universal. It's the only thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about... JOHN GREEN Jesus, I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're going to d... JOHN GREEN That's why I love road trips, dude. It's like doing something without actually doing anything." - Ha... JOHN GREEN What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd,... JOHN GREEN – Es gracioso lo que la gente está dispuesta a hacer para que la recuerden. – Bueno, o par... JOHN GREEN Collin Singleton could no more stay cool than a blue whale could stay skinny or Bangladesh could sta... JOHN GREEN The future will erase everything--there's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend ob... JOHN GREEN No, I don’t think you’re gonna be single forever, and also I don’t understand your obsession w... JOHN GREEN —¿Qué más? Ella es tan hermosa. No te cansas de verla. Nunca te preocupas si es más inteligent... JOHN GREEN