... We're just different."
"Yeah," I say. "I'm mute and you have verbal diarrhea.

Janet Gurtler

Mots clés personalities sisters

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You belong, Jaz. You’re a human being. Color isn’t what you are.
It’s just your shade. You’re beautiful. Inside. Where it counts.

Janet Gurtler

Mots clés jaz if-i-tell janet-gurtler

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What she doesn’t know is that I don’t want to feel better. I don’t want to go on with my life as if nothing happened. Something did happen. Something big."

Samatha from WHO I KISSED

Janet Gurtler

Mots clés samantha who-i-kissed

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He tilts his head forward, so close that our noses actually touch, and he winds my braid around his finger. I hold my breath and try to turn off the part of my brain that insists on analyzing every situation and running it through different scenarios and outcomes before taking action. Instead I press on, determined to worry about the consequences later." Sam from WHO I KISSED.

Janet Gurtler

Mots clés who-i-kissed

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I walk into the office of the counselor and figure out a few things. His name is Bob. It’s written on the plastic sign his door. Bob Kissock. Also, he wears too much cologne. It smells up the tiny room and makes me think of men wearing towels around their waists on TV commercials.

Janet Gurtler

Mots clés who-i-kissed

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If I could take a pill to suck out my insides, shrivel me up into dried-out bones for dogs to cart away, I would do it. Right there.

Janet Gurtler

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I grab a snap pea and bite off the end of it, and then I pick up my glass of milk. I'm overwhelmed by the emptiness in my middle that food won't fill.

Janet Gurtler

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I lie in my bed and think about poking something sharp into my skin. To see if it will hurt, to see if I'll bleed, to test whether I'm still alive. I don't though. For one, because moving means effort. Two, because I'm afraid if [I] start bleeding that I won't stop myself from draining all life from my body. Or worse, that I will.

Janet Gurtler

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Just like that, he's gone. Things can change so quickly. One second you're in the present, the next you're remembering the past.

Janet Gurtler

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There are bigger things to worry about. Bigger things than unrequited love and false kisses.

Janet Gurtler

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