Quotes from The Unusual Suspects

“Please, don't hate me because I am beautiful.”
― Michael Buckley, quote from The Unusual Suspects

“Trickster, love will be the end of you.”
― Michael Buckley, quote from The Unusual Suspects

“Snow, get behind me!" Charming shouted as he leaped to his feet. "I'll handle this brute."
"Billy", the teacher cried. "This is the twenty-first century, Women don't need the white knight routine anymore. I can fight my own battles.”
― Michael Buckley, quote from The Unusual Suspects

“I didn't do it,' he insisted.
'Then why did you run?' Sabrina asked.
'And send rabbits to eat us! I'm a seven-year-old girl,' Daphne said. 'Do you know how important bunny rabbits are to me?”
― Michael Buckley, quote from The Unusual Suspects

“And who are you supposed to be? the King of snot-nosed delinquents?”
― Michael Buckley, quote from The Unusual Suspects

“..when the first rubber ball smacked her in the head and made her brains rattle in her skull, she knew that something about this dodgeball game was different”
― Michael Buckley, quote from The Unusual Suspects

“Of course, the Big Bad Wolf does yoga, Sabrina thought. Why did I even bother to ask?”
― Michael Buckley, quote from The Unusual Suspects

“Trickster,” he said, sniffing the boy. “Love will be the end of you.”
― Michael Buckley, quote from The Unusual Suspects

“Wendell turned to the chalkboard and wrote I AM A WORTHLESS FAT-BODY.”
― Michael Buckley, quote from The Unusual Suspects

“The girl laughed. “I’m Bella,” she said.”
― Michael Buckley, quote from The Unusual Suspects

“On the chalkboard was another horrible but familiar sight. Someone had dipped his or her hand into a can of paint and pressed it on the wall. The handprint was bright red.”
― Michael Buckley, quote from The Unusual Suspects

“Once she was out of her clothes and into a warm robe, she headed back downstairs, passing the bathroom door, where she could hear Daphne begging Elvis to get into the tub with her. A tremendous splash told Sabrina that the little girl had gotten her wish.”
― Michael Buckley, quote from The Unusual Suspects

“Hanging upside down above them was a fat, frog-faced creature. Its head and feet were amphibious, with slimy, bumpy skin and a puffed, bulbous pouch under its lower lip, but it had the arms, legs, and body of a human being. It was the creature’s long sticky green tongue”
― Michael Buckley, quote from The Unusual Suspects

“LEPRECHAUN GOLD; FLOOR PLANS FOR GINGERBREAD HOUSES; TALKING FISH; GHOSTS OF CHRISTMAS PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE; TIK-TOK MEN;”
― Michael Buckley, quote from The Unusual Suspects

“opened the cover and saw a crude drawing of a giant kitten chewing on several screaming farmers”
― Michael Buckley, quote from The Unusual Suspects

“In most towns, the police do not rely on an old woman, two kids, and a sleepy dog to solve crimes,”
― Michael Buckley, quote from The Unusual Suspects

“Even Puck, who could usually be counted on to fart during dinner, was oddly quiet.”
― Michael Buckley, quote from The Unusual Suspects

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