“If you stay, I’ll give you my heart and never ask for it back.”
“I could put some serious hurt on Prince Not-So-Charming if I need to.”
“when things seem difficult and we’re tempted to doubt, we need to trust in what we can’t see.”
“Verranica Welling, I love you with all my soul. I will happily be your king, if you will consent to be my love, my wife and my queen for all of our days in Doon and beyond.
This time, I didn't need to think about my answer. Yes, Jamie, Yes!”
“I tried to console myself with the fact that even if he did choose me, he’d leave me eventually, like every other man in my life.”
“I’d learned from experience hoping for the impossible just ended in heartbreak”
“Vee'd been too busy ogling all the bright, shiny trinkets in the marketplace to notice Jamie shadowing us.Visions or not, he was far too bipolar to be a match for my best friend. She deserved a true prince-not some moody poseur with a crown. Yet, if I knew her, his conflicted Edward Cullen act would her hook faster than meth.”
“Eric cheated on her with a girl dumber than a box of Beanie Babies and lied about it.”
“Verranica, I will never leave you.”
“I choose you, James Thomas Kellan MacCrae,to be my king and coruler.”
“Like doing a mash-up of Spring Awakening and Spam-a-lot.”
“The prayer was so beautiful—even more moving than “You’ll Never Walk Alone” from Carousel—that I wanted to cry.”
“The physical laws of nature do not apply to the one who created them.”
“Pure, unselfish love can break any spell.”
“A view-inspired soundtrack—mostly The Sound of Music—played in my head.”
“I was for anything that didn’t involve traipsing through the forest like a Sondheim character.”
“guess, but I figured that was just a coincidence. I mean, Glinda and Elphaba we’re not.” She leaned forward, her eyes sparkling. “But I could totally get my Glinda on if you think it’ll get us out of here faster.” Not in the mood for one of her Wicked sing-alongs, I shot my best friend a dirty look as”
“For those of us with a bookish bent, reading is a reflexive response to everything. This is how we deal with the world and anything that comes our way. We have always known that there is a book for every occasion and every obsession. When in doubt, we are always looking things up.”
“... life is to be used, not just held in the hand like a box of bonbons that nobody eats.”
“...Or we can blaze! Become legends in our own time, strike fear in the heart of mediocre talent everywhere! We can scald dogs, put records out of reach! Make the stands gasp as we blow into an unearthly kick from three hundred yards out! We can become God's own messengers delivering the dreaded scrolls! We can race dark Satan himself till he wheezes fiery cinders down the back straightaway....They'll speak our names in hushed tones, 'those guys are animals' they'll say! We can lay it on the line, bust a gut, show them a clean pair of heels. We can sprint the turn on a spring breeze and feel the winter leave our feet! We can, by God, let our demons loose and just wail on!”
“Sure, okay, I'll pick up some cat litter. Anything else?"
"Watch your back, G." Then she hung up.
Hero paused in her sobbing to look at me quizzically. "Why does your mom want cat litter? You guys don't even have a cat."
"She uses it for..." I searched my brain madly, but all I could come up with was "teaching."
"She uses cat litter to teach English?"
I nodded. "She's kind of unconventional in her methods."
Hero frowned. "But how does she use it?"
The girl was relentless when she fixated on something. "Um, when their papers are really bad, she gives them a little bag of cat litter. It's her way of telling them their writing is crap." I laughed. "She's kooky.”
“Throughout my life I have seen, without one exception, narrow-shouldered men performing innumerable idiotic acts, brutalizing their fellows, and corrupting souls by every means. They call the motive for their actions: fame.”
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