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Jessie’s Dad
Liam Sandler is a senior at Wood Valley High School and the lead singer of the high school band Orgasmville. Liam has long hair and a bright, sunny personality. However, he’s also just as entitled and wealthy as all of his peers—though he traveled around India over the summer, he insists smugly to his classmates that it will just make a great note in a college application essay. Jessie gets to know him better when she works alongside him at Liam’s mom’s bookstore, Book Out Below! For the most part, Jessie doesn’t like this work arrangement—she and Liam don’t have much to talk about and when they do talk, Jessie finds it awkward. She does, however, file away any potentially cute thing he does to share with Dri, who has nursed an entirely one-sided crush on Liam for some time. Liam is dating Gem, something that Jessie can’t quite fathom—where Gem is mean and calculating, Liam is kind and oblivious (which Jessie eventually decides is exactly why the relationship worked for so long). Ethan has issues with Liam since Liam replaced Ethan’s brother, Xander, in Orgasmville after Xander’s death. While before the band played mostly small, intimate gigs, Liam wants to take the band on tour after he graduates. Their conflict comes to a head when Liam tries to ask Jessie out after breaking up with Gem to be with her—but Ethan reveals himself to be SN and Jessie chooses him instead. Liam leaves, however, without causing too much of a scene, and Jessie supposes that he’ll get back together with Gem.
Liam Sandler Quotes in Tell Me Three Things
The Tell Me Three Things quotes below are all either spoken by Liam Sandler or refer to Liam Sandler. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 2
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And only later, when I got to my actual homeroom and had to stand up and do the whole summer vacation thing all over again in front of another twenty-five kids—and utter the words “Smoothie King” for the second time to an equally appalled audience—did I realize I had a large clump of grass stuck to my ass.
On reflection, the number of people who may have sensed my desperation? At least fifty, and I’m estimating on the low side just to make myself feel better.
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Chapter 28
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“I think he’s Liam.”
“No way,” I say.
“It explains why he would dump Gem for you.”
I smile at Scar but not because any part of me hopes SN is Liam. [...]
“You’ve been listening,” I say, and feel so grateful she’s still my friend, that she will be, hopefully forever.
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Chapter 33
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I think about the life I’ve built here. SN and Ethan, or maybe SN/Ethan, Dri and Agnes, even Theo. Liam too, I guess. How my new English teacher said I’m one of her brightest students, which is a huge compliment, considering I go to a school that sends five kids to Harvard each year. How Wood Valley may be filled with rich brats, but it also has a beautiful library, and I get to work in a bookstore, and I’m reading college-level poetry with a boy who can recite it back to me. In a strange way, thanks to Rachel, LA has turned out to be nerd heaven.
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Liam Sandler Quotes in Tell Me Three Things
The Tell Me Three Things quotes below are all either spoken by Liam Sandler or refer to Liam Sandler. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 2
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And only later, when I got to my actual homeroom and had to stand up and do the whole summer vacation thing all over again in front of another twenty-five kids—and utter the words “Smoothie King” for the second time to an equally appalled audience—did I realize I had a large clump of grass stuck to my ass.
On reflection, the number of people who may have sensed my desperation? At least fifty, and I’m estimating on the low side just to make myself feel better.
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Chapter 28
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“I think he’s Liam.”
“No way,” I say.
“It explains why he would dump Gem for you.”
I smile at Scar but not because any part of me hopes SN is Liam. [...]
“You’ve been listening,” I say, and feel so grateful she’s still my friend, that she will be, hopefully forever.
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Chapter 33
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I think about the life I’ve built here. SN and Ethan, or maybe SN/Ethan, Dri and Agnes, even Theo. Liam too, I guess. How my new English teacher said I’m one of her brightest students, which is a huge compliment, considering I go to a school that sends five kids to Harvard each year. How Wood Valley may be filled with rich brats, but it also has a beautiful library, and I get to work in a bookstore, and I’m reading college-level poetry with a boy who can recite it back to me. In a strange way, thanks to Rachel, LA has turned out to be nerd heaven.
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