Bill Watterson · 256 pages
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“You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.”
“I try to make everyone's day a little more surreal.”
“The world isn't fair, Calvin."
"I know Dad, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?”
“Hello Dad! It is now three in the morning. Do you know where I am? ”
“Now what state do you live in?'
'Denial.”
“Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer.... Who'd have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously? ”
“I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world.”
“Calvin: Know what I pray for?
Hobbes: What?
Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the incapacity to tell the difference.”
“Leave it to a girl to take all the fun out of sex discrimination.
-Calvin”
“MOMMMM, I'm thirsty... What's this, just water?”
“Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)”
“As for himself, however hateful life was, it was hateful in a home and not in the gutter. Many Americans hated their homes. The number of homeless in America couldn't touch the number of Americans who had homes and families and hated the whole thing.”
“I'm hungry, Garion, and I don't think well when I'm hungry."
"That might explain a lot," Beldin noted blandly. "We should have fed you more often when you were younger."
"You can be terribly offensive sometimes, do you know that?"
"Why, yes, as a matter of fact I do.”
“...a temple was never perfectly a temple, till it was ruined and mixed up with the winds and the sky and the herbs.”
“She was a beautiful woman." Gavner sighed, tracing the outline of one of the elephants. "She just had very bad taste in underwear …"
"And in boyfriends," I added impishly.
Mr. Crepsley burst into laughter at that”
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