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I see the whole episode in my memory as if it were a very crisply photographed black and white movie. Directed by Bergman perhaps.We are playing ourselves in the movie version. If only we could escape from always having to play ourselves !
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Erica Jong (Fear of Flying)
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What the fuck do you know about chemo? Only what I see in movies. And I mean movies like Love Story and Beaches.I wasn't talking about the Exorcist.You an ass. A total ass. But I'm an ass who'll sit next to you while you vomit. that kind of ass is few and far between,my little pea soup spewing devil child.
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Erica Orloff (Do They Wear High Heels in Heaven?)
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think about how impossible it is to explain to the young what happens when you know you’re not immune from death. Everything changes. You look at the world differently. When you’re young, you have no perspective. You think life lasts forever—days and months and years stretching out to infinity. You think you don’t have to choose. You think you can waste time doing drugs and alcohol. You think time will always be on your side. But time, once your friend, becomes your enemy. It gallops by as you get older. Holidays come faster and faster. Years fly off the calendar as in old movies. All you long for is to go back and do it all over, correct the mistakes,
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Erica Jong (Fear of Dying)
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I see the glow before I see her. The orange light is so strong it’s hard to believe the house isn’t on fire, but when feet appear at the top of the staircase, I can finally see that the light isn’t coming from the house. It’s coming from her.
My heart beats so fast I can’t tell the pulses apart—it’s one harsh thrum inside my head. If I’m a Smurf, this girl is an Oompa Loompa. No. Not even. It looks like she walked out of a horror movie. She really is on fire, burning from the inside out.
I’m staring, but I can’t help it. Everyone would be staring if they could see what I see.
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Erica Cameron (Sing Sweet Nightingale (The Dream War Saga, #1))
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Sometimes the wake-and-bake feels like snuggling a lover while the sun creeps further across the floor with each passing hour. Sometimes those midday bong rips are like sharing mimosas and appetizers with a friend at a cute restaurant in a big city like in the movies. And sometimes at night when she sits on the porch with a joint between her fingers and one behind her ear — as Erica so often did — it feels like being cradled in a rocking chair and then carried to bed by a mother that loves her.
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Gaeli Love Weiss (Stagnant Water)
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Scream?” Nothing like watching people get stabbed to death to take her mind off things. Candace groaned. “Seriously? It’s June. It’s nowhere close to Halloween.” “Scary movies aren’t like Christmas movies. There’s no rule about when you can and can’t watch them.
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Erica Lee (11:59)
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Most of what I learned at Lakeside-Milam happened between lectures and movies and writing assignments,
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Erica C. Barnett (Quitter: A Memoir of Drinking, Relapse, and Recovery)
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I've seen enough scary movies to know splitting up is never the right choice," Bobby informed her.
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Erica Stevens (The Upheaval (The Survivor Chronicles, #1))
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She’d practically been preparing for it since birth: Spying was her family business. Most of her ancestors had been spies, going all the way back to Nathan Hale in the Revolutionary War. Her grandfather Cyrus Hale was one of the best there’d ever been, and he’d taught Erica almost everything he knew. On the other hand, I came from a long line of grocers. I was only thirteen, and until seven months earlier, my entire espionage experience had consisted of watching James Bond movies.
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Stuart Gibbs (Evil Spy School)