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“Being a woman with a contrary opinion does not render me hysterical.” (The Case for Jamie Quotes)
Brittany Cavallaro
The Case for Jamie
“Girls could be so profligate with their love, as though by spreading it wide, they would induce the world to love them back. As though the world wasn’t going to take that love and beat them with it.”
Brittany Cavallaro
The Case for Jamie
“He had looked at a teenage girl, his teenage son’s girlfriend, and seen a shirley temple where he should have seen poison.”
Brittany Cavallaro
The Case for Jamie
“He told you to stop being a numpty (Scottish for “a stupid,” I had to look it up and am now getting very strange ads on my phone) and to “get here already,” although he knows as well as I do that your break does not begin until next week.”
Brittany Cavallaro
The Case for Jamie
“Holmes wasn’t a myth, or a king. She was a person. And to have a relationship with a person, you had to treat them like one.”
Brittany Cavallaro
The Case for Jamie
“I felt it. Felt everything. I knew I wanted to erase myself from the top down, like a drawing, and that still I wanted someone to touch my edges and tell me that they loved me despite them.”
Brittany Cavallaro
The Case for Jamie
“I kept my own company. That was a polite way of saying that I was my own friend and if I want to be alone I’d have to get rid of myself.”
Brittany Cavallaro
The Case for Jamie
“I want to be good without being nice. Can I do that?”
Brittany Cavallaro
The Case for Jamie
“I was somebody who only wanted to see the world through paintings, never a photograph.”
Brittany Cavallaro
The Case for Jamie
“Just because you know something about yourself doesn’t mean you should be forgiven for it.”
Brittany Cavallaro
The Case for Jamie
“Reading took me away from myself, so I tried to be reading all the time.”
Brittany Cavallaro
The Case for Jamie
“The only common denominator in everything you attempt is yourself.”
Brittany Cavallaro
The Case for Jamie
“Then they stole the Connect Four set from the nurses’ station and made me watch them play each other. I began placing bets on Mr. Watson. It wasn’t a good strategy, but it made my uncle furious.”
Brittany Cavallaro
The Case for Jamie
“There was a kind of relief in it, the giving up.”
Brittany Cavallaro
The Case for Jamie
“There were so many comments on my accent that I adopted a Texan swagger just to be contrary.”
Brittany Cavallaro
The Case for Jamie
“When things were going wrong, it was so easy to imagine that everyone knew, that everyone was talking about it. But nobody cared nearly as much about your life as you did.”
Brittany Cavallaro
The Case for Jamie
