Quotes from Come, Thou Tortoise

“I eagerly await more complex concentricity in our Canadian coinage.”
― Jessica Grant, quote from Come, Thou Tortoise

“I would not say no to a tortoise, I said.”
― Jessica Grant, quote from Come, Thou Tortoise

“We drove out to Oregon City where the streets are all named after presidents in the order they were elected, so you can't get lost if you are American and you know your presidents.”
― Jessica Grant, quote from Come, Thou Tortoise

“I had to pretend you didn't exist. That's how much it hurt


She was still thinking if your safety p. 361”
― Jessica Grant, quote from Come, Thou Tortoise

“She was still thinking of your safety p. 362”
― Jessica Grant, quote from Come, Thou Tortoise

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“Why should he not hate them? He never asked himself the question. He knew only hate and lost himself in the passion of it. Life had become a hell to him. He had not been made for the close confinement wild beasts endure at the hands of men. And yet it was in precisely this way that he was treated. Men stared at him, poked sticks between the bars to make him snarl, and then laughed at him.”
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“I could win you a goldfish."

"I don't think that's be fair to the goldfish," Gemma said. "I've had about a dozen of them, and they all seem to die within days of me getting them."

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