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And then I screwed up and the Colonel screwed up and Takumi screwed up and she slipped through our fingers.


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CHRIS EDWARDS Regret? That's a screwed up word.
JAMES HETFIELD Conflict of interest. I wanted to date somebody who was less screwed up than me, and she wasn't.
JASON KRUMBINE I think Jenson somewhat screwed me up there,
DAN WHELDON Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.
DONALD SMITH Hi. And what kind of screwed-up beastie would you be?
ILONA ANDREWS I know I screwed up my 'Godzilla.'
DEAN DEVLIN Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I?
RICHARD M. NIXON It's like we kind of screwed up.
ANN ROBERTSON I've screwed up and I've overcommitted and it's typical of me.
ROBERT METCALFE The April Fool was him. He screwed up.
NANCY HOLTON In the screwed-up life I’d been dealt, she was my only source of comfort.
ABBI GLINES Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I?
RICHARD M. NIXON I screwed my knee up once because I fell off the stage.
ZAKK WYLDE This is the most screwed up election I've ever seen.
ED RENWICK We're just as screwed up and brave and false and loyal and wrong and right as anyone else.
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FAKEER ISHAVARDAS The AMA has royally screwed up this time and they're going to have to fix it.
BEN BOSTROM I'm a sucker for a screwed-up protagonist. We all have issues.
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DENNIS TROTTER We are far too screwed up for a goddamned love triangle.
MICHELLE HODKIN Some of the funniest people I know are not screwed up in the head.
DARRELL HAMMOND My dad used to say that life's a journey, but somebody screwed up and lost the map.
RACHEL CAINE Oh, I'm [screwed]. I'm so [screwed].
BRANDON MCCARTHY It's not that I am anti-social, it's just that people are screwed up.
RON FOX God did create a world without sin. We just screwed it up.
WESLEY MILLER At some point, someone held and loved us, but somewhere along the way, it all got screwed up.
KATIE MCGARRY As ecstatic as I was at the birth of my daughter, I felt selfish bringing her, and later my son, int...
JILL GREENBERG Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get...
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BRIAN DENNEHY They screwed us up one year, and we want to turn it back at them whenever we can.
BUD ADAMS It's really a film about screwed-up parenting - but done with good intentions.
WAYNE KRAMER ...you may have created my past and screwed up my present but you have no control over my future.
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PAT CONROY I've screwed everything up royally. I remember you saying that growing up happens when you start hav...
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CHUCK PALAHNIUK The movie is about how he screwed it up really bad, and he turned to Jesus Christ to help him change...
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ALBERT ELLIS I can't do anything else. So if this falls through, I'm screwed.
TIM ROTH A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody want...
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HOLLY HOOD I'm sorry your pretty little world got all screwed up, but everybody's does, and you go on. It's how...
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Tons of crushes and stupid fights
Secrets we'll take to the...
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KEVIN MURRAY More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of u...
JOHN W. VESSEY, JR. More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of u...
GEN JOHN W. VESSEY, JR. For an author, the nice characters aren't much fun. What you want are the screwed up characters....
TERRY PRATCHETT Why go through all the hassle of dealing with airlines, hotels, and rental-car agencies yourself, on...
DAVE BARRY I already had a feeling I was screwed, seeing I was in sacrificial virgin attire and in a corral. Bu...
KRISTEN ASHLEY She’s way too old to be acting a fool because she has a screwed-up mommy.” “Please. Just pleas...
P.C. CAST Life is like a seesaw you can be up hi one minute then before you know it you can be down low the ne...
GARY F EVANS... Sometimes I think God loves the ones who most desperately ache and are most desperately lost - his o...
ANNE LAMOTT I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that&#...
ALBERT ELLIS When Mel came up in 1964 in the middle of the season, I was his pitching coach, but I was also pitch...
WHITEY FORD I was going to fight vampires, and my name wasn't Buffy--I was so screwed.
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BILL JELEN I may have overmothered you and screwed you up in ways large and small, but I think it’s time you ...
JONATHAN TROPPER I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. That's how I became the estee...
BRUCE STERLING I was all screwed up in the head ... under serious drug influences at the time. I am sorry this all ...
JULIUS MURPHY That looks so terrible. The guy [Piazza] is a great pro. That incident screwed up the whole night fo...
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MICHAEL GRANT We're screwed for food for eight days.
CARY WOLOVICK The cop looks annoyed, like we're giving him a headache. I want to explain everything to him that it...
JOHNATHON TROOPER The cop looks annoyed, like we're giving him a headache. I want to explain everything to him that it...
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CAPTAIN BEEFHEART I got you a present."

"Did you?"

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'She seems nice.
JOHN GREEN The pigs can't stop the fox; I'm too quick,' Takumi said to himself. "I can rhyme while I run; I'm t...
JOHN GREEN I’m just scared of ghosts, Pudge. And home is full of them.
JOHN GREEN You can't just make me different and then leave
JOHN GREEN She has great breasts," the Colonel said without looking up from the whale.
"DO NOT OBJECTIFY W...
JOHN GREEN But why Alaska?' I asked her.

'Well, later, I found out what it means. It's from an Aleut...
JOHN GREEN Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better th...
JOHN GREEN I'm really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why or what.
JOHN GREEN You're funny, and you're smart, and you may show up late, but you always show up eventually.
JOHN GREEN I have a great affection for people who are intellectually engaged with the world, and who don’t t...
JOHN GREEN I've never known before what it feels like to want someone - not to want to hook up with them or wha...
JOHN GREEN There's a stark difference between the words 'prodigy' and 'genius.' Prodigies can very quickly lear...
JOHN GREEN Why is being a nerd bad? Saying I notice you’re a nerd is like saying, ‘Hey, I notice that you�...
JOHN GREEN I wanted us to have an adventure. Because I love that crap. Because I'm not whatever-her-name-is. I ...
JOHN GREEN If my public existence does anything worthwhile, hopefully it at least demystifies the author a bit,...
JOHN GREEN If people were like rain, I was like drizzle and she was a hurricane.
JOHN GREEN I do not say goodbye. I believe that's one of the bullshitiest words ever invented. It's not like yo...
JOHN GREEN Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.
JOHN GREEN Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will
JOHN GREEN