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Really? And what curse befalls the Adams of the world?" Ann opens her mouth and, presumably thinking of nothing to say, closes it again. It is Felicity who answers, eyes steely. "They are weak to temptation. And we are their temptresses.
Libba Bray
Maybe girls need an island to find themselves. Maybe they need a place where no one's is watching them so they can be who they really are.
Libba Bray
Adina gave a little shriek. "That fish just swam past my leg! Creepy! Where did it go?" "To your right! Two o'clock! Get it!" "You are officially the most bloodthirsty vegetarian ever.
Libba Bray
- So my own sister will not promote me? Speaking of which, weren't you supposed to find me a beautiful future wife with a small fortune? Have you had any success on that front? - Yes - I have warned them all.
Libba Bray
The best day of my life happened when I was five and almost died at Disney World. I'm sixteen now, so you can imagine that's left me with quite a few days of major suckage.
Libba Bray
No, I call. Come back. I'm here, he says. But I can't see. It's too bright. You can't hold back the light, Gemma. I'm here. Trust me.
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Nobody Wants to be themselves. That's why there's tv. -Ephigenia.
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- 'Music opens your soul, makes you ready.' - 'Ready for what?' - He smiles big. 'Exactly.
Libba Bray
We are English, and I expect you to behave as such. No more crying.
Libba Bray
The wolf was at the door. His shadow spilled into the room, taking it over.
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Could I have a Sloe Gin Fizz, without the gin?" "What's the point of that, Miss?" the waiter said. "Tomorrow morning," Mabel said.
Libba Bray
I thought research would be more glamorous, somehow. I'd give the librarian a secret code word and he'd give me the one book I needed and whisper the necessary page numbers. Like a speakeasy. With books.
Libba Bray
Naughty John, Naughty John, does his work with his apron on. Cuts your throat and takes your bones, sells 'em off for a coupla stones.
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She hadn't meant to get trapped in a conversation. That was the trouble with offering help to old people.
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Cash or check?” he said cheekily. Even the dullest Ohio girls knew that bit of lingo: Kiss now or kiss later? "Bank's closed, pal.
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I hear they feed you in Sing Sing,” Evie muttered. "Three squares a day.” "Evangeline,” Will said with a sigh. "Charity begins at home.” "So does mental illness.
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How do you invent a religion?” Evie asked. Will looked over the top of his spectacles. "You say, ‘God told me the following,' and then wait for people to sign up.
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It keeps her purity vacum-sealed to preserve its freshness for her future husband.
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In books, the truth makes everything good and fine. The good prevail. The wicked are punished. There is happiness. But it's not like that really, is it?" "No," I say. "I suppose it only makes everything known.
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It's knowing I'll never have what she has--a beauty so powerful it brings things to you. I fear I will always have to chase things I want. I'll always have to wonder whether I'm truly wanted or whether I've just been settled for.
Libba Bray
But aren't many gardens beautiful because they are imperfect?...aren't the strange, new flowers that arise by mistake or misadventure as pleasing as the well-tended and planned?
Libba Bray
We're all damaged somehow."-A Great and Terrible Beauty.
Libba Bray
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