“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.”
“Are you famous in India?" Allyson asks.
"I am Brad Pitt in India" Willem says.”
“Each of the genes of the human body is spelled out explicitly in this dictionary, but what each does is still largely a mystery.”
“Atticus:"Damn it, Jim, I'm a Druid not a Physicist!”
“You are the silence between the notes. The white space between the letters. The missing that makes everything else a something.”
“No,” she said suddenly. “It’s not a cage, Nox.” She put her hand on his shoulder. “Love is an open door.”
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