“I'm twenty-nine, happily single and getting it on a regular basis' I said, enjoying the way their thin lips hung open in an impressive O.
'Well I've never,' Jane gasped.
'Clearly. You should try it some time. I understand Mr Smith is so vision impaired you might have a shot there.'
Their appalled shrieks were music to my ears and I quickly made my escape.”
“Do you mind if we leave here so I can chain smoke 'til I throw up so it will be easier to quit?”
“Life happens whether we are ready or not—the only choice or control we have is whether or not we will rise to meet its challenges.”
“I figured since I’d arrived in Crazytown, I may as well take off my coat and stay a while.”
“Do not mess with my friends, myself or my Prada.”
“jumping up and down like a Mexican jumping bean on crack.”
“I was speechless. Rare for me, but if anyone was capable of shocking me to silence, it was my mother.”
“When you die, the only things you leave behind are memories in the minds of those who loved you. That was how you lived on.”
“Ready does not factor into the equation, Angel. Life happens whether we are ready or not—the only choice or control we have is whether or not we will rise to meet its challenges.”
“What is she?” I asked him. He paused and considered my question. “She’s a bitch. A horrible, horrible bitch.” He looked down at her and laughed. “But she’s my bitch.”
“I’m not ready for all this.” “Ready does not factor into the equation, Angel. Life happens whether we are ready or not—the only choice or control we have is whether or not we will rise to meet its challenges.”
“Oookay, that was seriously confusing, especially the part about the Warrior Prince being a taco stand,” I laughed, trying to thaw the icy chill in the room.”
“He was so delighted when I bested him that he slapped me on the back and sent me flying into a tree, which I knocked down. It was a hundred year old oak.”
“Hear it smells like road kill in ninety degree weather on that side of the building,”
“I was just pissy and bored and horny and lonely. It was a bad combination. Bad.”
“Chloe, what would it take to start anew with you?” Hopelessness settled over him when she murmured, “More than you’ve got.” Yet then he reminded himself, She has no’ seen all I’ve got.”
“We are all told from the very beginning that we are important. From the moment we can first understand words and perhaps even before then, we are continuously reassured that we have a place in things , that we have a part to play. The human race as a whole is a hopeful species. Of course there are exceptions. Some forgotten children, ones who slip through the cracks. And not everyone is told that they will be important in the same way. Not everyone will be a doctor, or a lawyer. Some people grow up believing that their importance is to love someone fully. Some people grow up believing that their importance is to be loved fully. Perhaps the reason my mailbox was always secret was that the people who visited it came to believe that keeping the secret was a piece of their importance. Maybe I was always given murders because they all thought that contributing to my legend was their importance. But we are all taught, in general, in some way, that someday our worth will be revealed. Someday we will be justified. Someday we will be free.”
“I know what I know,” she said softly. “But I let go of the fury I had for that boy a long time ago. If I didn’t, it would consume me. Like perhaps it’s consuming you”
“Of all fragrances, the sweetest is that of virtue.”
“Mon Kate, qui était à moi, qui n'est plus a moi," he whispers as he kisses me. And then he says it in English. "My Kate, who was mine, who is no longer mind" -- he tiredly rubs his bloodshot eyes -- "because now you belong to fate.”
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