“He prepared the richest, most indulgent and disgusting dish imaginable - a bowl of fudge ripple ice-cream topped with chocolate syrup, semi-sweet chocolate morsels, chocolate sprinkles, and, for good measure, a chocolate brownie from the pantry. He even garnished it with a handful of M&M's.
(...) "Look what I made for you. A bowl of diabetes.”
― Melissa Landers, quote from Alienated
“It's common knowledge that shiny rocks are preferred among human females.”
― Melissa Landers, quote from Alienated
“Her dad's voice boomed from inside the house. "I've got a Glock, a shovel, and five acres of woods, Johnson!”
― Melissa Landers, quote from Alienated
“Can I borrow the car today, Mom? We'll get soaked if we walk-"
"Hmph," Dad interrupted. "When I was a boy-"
"Yeah, yeah," Cara interrupted back. "You walked to school naked in the snow or something. So can I?”
― Melissa Landers, quote from Alienated
“I don't like the way he looks at you."
"How does he look at me?"
"Like he wants to dock his ship inside your spaceport."
"You've cracked.”
― Melissa Landers, quote from Alienated
“I won't be your intergalactic booty call.”
― Melissa Landers, quote from Alienated
“To be honest, I don't know what qualities you ever saw in him. I can tell why he chose you, but-"
"Oh yeah?" Cara's spirits lifted as she sensed a compliment coming on. "Why do you think he chose me?"
"It's obvious." He swept a hand to indicate her loose curls. "Your long, shiny hair, healthy skin, and bright eyes show that you're well-nourished."
"Uh, thank you?"
"I'm not finished."
"Go on then."
"You're clearly intelligent." Then he felt the need to add, "For a human."
"Gee. That's so sweet."
"But Eric was probably most attracted to your wait-to-hip ratio." For a split second, Aelyx resembled a human boy as he leaned back and peered at her caboose. "Hips of that width are likely to pass life offspring without complication."
Cara nearly swallowed her own tongue. She didn't have big hips did she?”
― Melissa Landers, quote from Alienated
“Friendship is one mind in two bodies."
Right. Until your BFF went out of her mind and after your ex-boyfriend's body.”
― Melissa Landers, quote from Alienated
“She'd suggested that he observe other teens for social cues, and he'd done the job in spades. Yesterday after spending the afternoon with the track team, Aelyx had smacked her on the back and yelled, "Good hustle!" after she jogged up the front porch steps.”
― Melissa Landers, quote from Alienated
“How can we understand what we’ve never experienced and adapt without making mistakes?”
― Melissa Landers, quote from Alienated
“Then it's topped with cheese, which is made from cow's milk. But the best part is pepperoni sausage."
"And how is sausage made?" Aelyx asked.
Dad laughed dryly from across the table. "Ignorance is bliss in this case.”
― Melissa Landers, quote from Alienated
“Aelyx's voice was guarded when he said, "Our geneticists terminated the program."
"Why?"
"Because we all started growing tentacles."
Her eyes opened wide. "Really?"
"No," he said, totally deadpan. "Not really."
Damn, she'd walked right into that one.”
― Melissa Landers, quote from Alienated
“I'm going to the bathroom, not to Beirut. What horrible fate do you think's waiting for me in there? Death by toilet swirly?”
― Melissa Landers, quote from Alienated
“Bill walked slowly to Cara's dressed and leaned on the edge, folding his arms as the pine creaked under his weight. Even the furniture feared this man.”
― Melissa Landers, quote from Alienated
“Aelyx had promised things were fine between them, but Mister "I Would Never Lie To You" was about as honest as a felon.”
― Melissa Landers, quote from Alienated
“Who needed drugs when winning felt this good?”
― Melissa Landers, quote from Alienated
“I'm your personal jock-blocker, baby." Tori reached into her jeans pocket and handed over a half-eaten Snickers bar. "Happy Douche Liberation Day.”
― Melissa Landers, quote from Alienated
“The boy she'd once loved was gone, and she'd accept it. But even if she didn't want Eric back, he'd hurt her. He was the enemy, and the Universal Girl Code stipulated friends should band together in hating the ****** till death.”
― Melissa Landers, quote from Alienated
“It was both terrifying and glorious in it's intensity. It was love.”
― Melissa Landers, quote from Alienated
“I won't say that you're pretty because that dog already did. And I won't say you're funny because you have had me laughing since I met you.”
― Melissa Landers, quote from Alienated
“Sexual reproduction and food -- humans' two favorite subjects.”
― Melissa Landers, quote from Alienated
“She started coming to the meetings. We talked, mostly about you, and it sorta..."
"Just happened," Tori finished, staring at the floor.
"Unh-uh." Cara shook her head, trying to clear it like an Etch a Sketch. "A zit just happens. My best friend going after my ex doesn't just happen.”
― Melissa Landers, quote from Alienated
“Most humans expressed affection by pressing their lips together, a simple act, so why would anyone feel the need to research the process?”
― Melissa Landers, quote from Alienated
“Humans would ruin it, just as they’d destroyed so many of their own natural wonders.”
― Melissa Landers, quote from Alienated
“Look what I made for you. A bowl of diabetes" -Aelyx”
― Melissa Landers, quote from Alienated
“I'm more of a cafeteria Catholic - I pick and choose when to go, what to believe." -Cara”
― Melissa Landers, quote from Alienated
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“I looked at the stone, fragmented and cratered by my rage and jealousy. So this was a visual representation of a Diabolic’s affection, then: an ugly, broken, blood-spattered stone.”
― S.J. Kincaid, quote from The Diabolic
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― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, quote from Poor Folk
“Befit sprang before the blacks, beating down their spears. She turned toward Conan, her bosom heaving, her eyes flashing. Fierce fingers of wonder caught at his heart. She was slender, yet formed like a goddess: at once lithe and voluptuous. Her only garment was a broad silken girdle. Her white ivory limbs and the ivory globes of her breasts drove a beat of fierce passion through the Cimmerian's pulse, even in the panting fury of battle. Her rich black hair, black as a Stygian night, fell in rippling burnished clusters down her supple back. Her dark eyes burned on the Cimmerian. She was untamed as a desert wind, supple and dangerous as a she-panther. She came close to him, heedless of his great blade, dripping with blood of her warriors. Her supple thigh brushed against it, so close she came to the tall warrior. Her red lips parted as she stared up into his somber menacing eyes.”
― Robert E. Howard, quote from Conan of Cimmeria
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