So what was Jonah like before high school? As a kid?”“As a kid?” Hallelujah brings up the picture in her mind. “He was . . . sweet, I guess. Dorky. He’d wear these outfits his mom picked out—pleated khaki pants and polo shirts, with his hair slicked down with gel. And he would get really enthusiastic about things. Too enthusiastic. He went through this cowboy phase where he wore a cowboy hat and boots to school every day. Didn’t care what anyone thought.” The mental image makes her smile.“And he and Luke were best friends?”“Starting in middle school, yeah. They played soccer together.”“Huh.” Rachel pauses. “So when did Jonah get cute?”“He was still pretty short in middle school. And skinny. But he did start dressing better.”“No more pleated khakis?”“No more pleated khakis. And then the summer before ninth grade, he had this growth spurt. And he started to, uh, fill out. So I guess ninth grade is when I noticed . . .” Hallelujah fades off. “This is embarrassing.”“No, it’s not. This is what girls talk about.” Rachel grins. “Besides. I wanted to see if you were paying as close attention to him as he was to you.”“I didn’t realize I was. We were just friends.”“You can be friends and still objectively notice someone’s cuteness.

~ Kathryn Holmes

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With regard to navigating relationship's highways and bi-ways - avoid changing lanes without first giving a signal.

~ T.f. Hodge

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I'm convinced normal people miss the majority of God's blessings because they're too busy to notice them.

~ Craig Groeschel

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The birds are literal representations of the witnesses of those ordinary and big moments, but they are also metaphors for time itself, for the passing of time. It occurred to me, many years after I had been here, thinking about this idea, that every moment we have with one another is really our only moment, and because of that our every moment could potentially be a goodbye, so we have to notice and notice and notice.

~ David Gianadda

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Infinite possibilities are waiting for you to notice them.

~ Steven Redhead

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Only when we pay attention and notice small moments, do we make the connections that lead to a change in our perspective.

~ Andrea Goeglein

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Gosh, even Roark noticed Dominique.

~ Steven L. Sheppard

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A beauty is a woman you notice a charmer is one who notices you.

~ Adlai E. Stevenson

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