“You humans certainly have your hearts set on being happy, don’t you?”
― Allison Tebo, quote from The Reluctant Godfather
“What other lost soul has the misfortune to have you as their fairy godfather?”
― Allison Tebo, quote from The Reluctant Godfather
“Neat' was the highest superlative possible from Burndee and it was not a word that he often used...unless he was describing something he had done. 'Neat'--without even 'very' or 'really' attached to it--was extremely high praise from Burndee.”
― Allison Tebo, quote from The Reluctant Godfather
“I’m good, but I’m not that good. Unless we steal a baby—” Colin”
― Allison Tebo, quote from The Reluctant Godfather
“My first choice would be to give you more god children, but that would be far too cruel a thing to do—to them.”
― Allison Tebo, quote from The Reluctant Godfather
“It almost made him feel sorry for Colin and that was just as unthinkable an estate as marriage.”
― Allison Tebo, quote from The Reluctant Godfather
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“The scent of the sea and the burning asphalt being carried on the southerly wind made me think of summers past. The warmth of a girl's skin, old rock n' roll, button-down shirts right out of the wash, the smell of cigarettes smoked in the pool locker room, faint premonitions, everyone's sweet, limitless summer dreams. And then one year(when was it?), those dreams didn't come back.”
― Haruki Murakami, quote from Hear the Wind Sing
“It's one thing to crave a shot of adventure, a taste of something new, and quite another to become immersed in the extraordinary, where you're not quite certain if you're safe or stuck in limbo.”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Smoke
“It’s difficult to tell how much time is really passing when you’re hungry and bored. They say that a minute is a minute no matter where you are or what you’re doing, but my brain could never grasp that. I think time is a trickster. When I have a lot to do, time shrinks, but when I want something over with, it stretches and yawns, and laughs at my torture. Sometimes the minutes hold hours inside of them. This was one of those times.”
― Liesl Shurtliff, quote from Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin
“I care about you more than I care about myself, Fred.”
― L.H. Cosway, quote from Painted Faces
“So once someone remembers their true name, they’re cured?” Janner asked. “I wish it were so. We all forget from time to time, and so we need each other to tell us our stories. Sometimes a story is the only way back from the darkness.”
― Andrew Peterson, quote from The Warden and the Wolf King
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