“Humming the Star Wars theme to encourage myself, I wobbled onto my feet. Sometimes a girl's gotta provide her own trumpet-heavy heroic soundtrack.”
“We were quiet, two tiny specks glued down by gravity, peering at a universe that didn't notice us back.”
“In Gotham, batman just stumbles into crime," said Luther. "Salt lake is annoyingly tame.”
“NASA's next urgent mission should be to send good poets into space so they can describe what it's really like."
--Dangerous by Shannon Hale”
“You'd better not talk about microscopes anymore," he whispered, "or I don't know if I can control myself.”
“Why did everyone else seem fine but I felt as if I were living in a cage I'd outgrown two shoe sizes ago?”
“And this is where I'll end, before I know what happens next.”
“Life feels like fall of itself.”
“'A dream within a dream.”
“And I want to wake up.”
“Generally speaking, if a guy breaks your jaw and leg and cuts off your robotic arm, you file charges and get a restraining order. The only exception is when subtle machinations are needed to save the world from a massive, catastrophic alien takeover. But in no other circumstance.”
“Love was a risk. It was wild and unpredictable. You could either hold on for the ride, not knowing how it would end, or you could let go and never know the amazing you could have had.”
“Imagination, she figured, just wasn’t up to the task of understanding unique and foreign sensations. It knew only how to dampen or augment what it already knew. It would be like telling someone what sex felt like, or an orgasm. Impossible. But once you felt it yourself, you could then imagine varying degrees of this new sensation.”
“She's the fire in my veins, the breath in my lungs, and the glue trying to hold each of my scars together.”
“I mean, do you believe in God or what? “ “Not the name-brand God they serve here.” Tim said. “That old guy with the beard, granting wishes out of the clouds to whoever says the most rosaries. That’s bullshit. I believe in everything.”
“There are plenty of good reasons for admitting mistakes, starting with the simple likelihood that you will probably be found out anyway—by”
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