Lena Movie Quotes

If this was a movie, we would've sat down at the table with the guys and they would have learned some kind of valuable lesson, like not to judge people by how they look, or that being different is okay. And Lena would've learned that all jocks weren't stupid and shallow. It always seemed to work in movies, but this wasn't a movie. This was Gatlin, which severely limited what could happen.

What happens over the next few months is like the plot of a children's movie, the kind where a dog finds its owner in spite of insurmountable odds and prohibitive geography.

Maybe it wouldn’t be so bad to have a boyfriend again, someone to watch movies with, to fall asleep with. Someone to rest her head against, to curl into as she grew drowsy, too. Someone to admire when she caught him sleeping and saw that vulnerable, naked side of him that appeared when waking consciousness left him. And if she couldn’t have that, at least she could enjoy the illusion while it lasted. She didn’t have to wake him just yet. When the movie ended. She could wake him then.     CHAPTER