“Kate had never in her life seen such frightful deformities, and the goblins had never seen such a hideous dress.”
“Kate felt very offended. 'I am not an elf,' she insisted. 'I'm an Englishwoman!”
“Forks are absurd, he scoffed. They insult your food. They make it think you're killing it twice.”
“Lively, intelligent, and quite immature, [Emily] usually burst out with exactly the comment that summed up the situation beautifully and therefore could never in politeness be said.”
“Perhaps she had learned already those lessons in life that make smiling difficult.”
“And maybe a hundred billion cephalopod minds, out in the Trojans, just light-minutes apart, have become something—”
“Transcendent.”
“He was fantastic eye candy, and I earned the right to have a few cavities.”
“Pranks vs school= pranks win all day”
“Sobre todo, no podemos permitirnos el lujo de no vivir en el presente.”
“I love you. I want to shout it sometimes. I know you worry about our letters and texts getting read--shades of WWII, haunting us still, I guess, and I'm well aware that nothing's safe on the internet. I worry too. You need to know that when I say it, when I ask you to say it, it's because my lungs feel full of dark water, and seeing it or writing it lets me breathe.”
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