“Magnetism is not like in the superhero movies. I couldn’t pull a car toward myself, because a car weighs more than I do. I just ended up pulling myself to the car.”
“Geography is my strong subject,” Ostin said. “Everything is your strong subject,” Taylor said.”
“As long as you remember the whys, the hows will take care of themselves.”
“Did you know that rats can’t vomit?” “Okay, enough. No more rat trivia.”
“I’m glad I have you for my boyfriend.” “Me too,” I said. “Sometimes I have to pinch myself.” She pinched my arm and smiled. “You’re so cute.”
“The natives used to tie their enemies to the tree. The ants would eat them alive.”
“Where is the best place to hide a penny? It is in a jar of pennies.”
“My mother always said that if you do the right thing, the universe comes to your aid,”
“One day McKenna got hot enough”
“What the masses don’t realize is that they’re looking for a shepherd. Those who don’t think they can be influenced or call themselves ‘independent thinkers’ are usually the biggest conformists of all—and the easiest to turn. Why do you think cults prey on college students? Easy picking.”
“take it out on whoever is close. Even people we love. Taylor’s afraid for Michael and so she’s upset. And since he isn’t here, she took it out on you.”
“You touched people's lives, glancingly, and those lives changed forever.”
“What made this particularly interesting is that John Howard is by far the dullest man in Australia. Imagine a very committed funeral home director – someone whose burning ambition from the age of eleven was to be a funeral home director, whose proudest achievement in adulthood was to be elected president of the Queanbeyan and District Funeral Home Directors’ Association – then halve his personality and halve it again, and you have pretty well got John Howard.”
“He set fire to some potatoes, then cooked some undelivered post in the embers." - Dad
"Did he now? What a strange fellow. I would have done it the other way around." - Stafford”
“I can't imagine you not saying a word," said Marcus."I think you'd go crazy first.”
“The soul is an irrational, indivisible equation that perfectly expresses one thing: you. The soul would be no good to the devil if it could be destroyed. And it is not lost when placed in Satan's care, as is so often said. He always know exactly how to put his finger on it.”
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