“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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“Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over the ashes of those long dead, and that would continue to flow long after the human race had, through hatred and knowledge, burned itself out.”
― Vikram Seth, quote from A Suitable Boy
“The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday, that’s guaranteed.
And I can’t begin to explain that- or the craziness inside myself and everybdy else,but guess what? Sunday is my fav day again”
― Matthew Quick, quote from The Silver Linings Playbook
“Scar tissue had formed a knot on the bottom of his foot. He inspected the writing frequently—PROPERTY OF THE ALACRÁN ESTATE—but the scar had sliced through the tiny lettering. It was more difficult to make out the words.”
― Nancy Farmer, quote from The House of the Scorpion
“She turned; she bruised under her heel the scaly head of this dark suspicion-as terrifying to her as his guilt was to him. 'O Absalom, my Absalom! Come, come, we will not entertain such a thought. God himself would not urge it upon a mother.”
― Theodore Dreiser, quote from An American Tragedy
“It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach wills so. It dictates to us our emotions, our passions. After eggs and bacon it says, "Work!" After beefsteak and porter, it says, "Sleep!" After a cup of tea (two spoonfuls for each cup, and don't let it stand for more than three minutes), it says to the brain, "Now rise, and show your strength. Be eloquent, and deep, and tender; see, with a clear eye, into Nature, and into life: spread your white wings of quivering thought, and soar, a god-like spirit, over the whirling world beneath you, up through long lanes of flaming stars to the gates of eternity!”
― Jerome K. Jerome, quote from Three Men in a Boat
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