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I realize that my memories...are like one of those home movies, where a jerky camera records slices of the action, then breaks off suddenly before picking up again at another point. There are gaps. Gaping holes.
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Fiona Barton (The Child (Kate Waters, #2))
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You always want to be the girl in the movies, but you don’t need to be,’ he says. ‘You don’t need to imitate anyone. You don’t need to hide away. You’ve got a star that shines all on its own.
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Fiona Collins (You, Me and the Movies)
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Why do you keep coming to visit Mac if you hardly know him?’ James is silent for a moment. He places his hot chocolate on the table and a thick ribbon of cream creeps down the side of the mug. ‘Because I know what loneliness feels like. To have no one bothering about you. Wondering how you are. Looking out for you. I know how it feels to be alone.
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Fiona Collins (You, Me and the Movies)
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Annette says I’m precocious because I always have my nose buried in a book. But then she rarely reads anything more taxing than the latest Hollywood movie magazine and I’d rather be precocious than only ever thinking about film stars and boys and hairdos.
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Fiona Valpy (The Storyteller of Casablanca)
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She’s started plucking her eyebrows, too, to look like the photos of Hedy Lamarr in the movie magazines, but I think it just makes her look like she’s surprised the whole time.
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Fiona Valpy (The Storyteller of Casablanca)
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No one had ever told me before that there were limits to what I could or couldn't do.
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Fiona McGier (For the Love of His Life (Minnesota Romance #1))
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It's worse than I'd thought. I'm not just in a horror movie, I'm a dwarf in a horror movie.
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Harry Bingham (Talking to the Dead (Fiona Griffiths, #1))