Sam smirked. You have a favorite ? got a favorite speakeasy, don'tcha? Memphis shot back.
It was so hard to feel safe in the world when you were a girl.
I will never, ever drink whiskey again. From now on, it's strictly sherry.
Sometimes a little crazy is all you need
You can’t believe how bleeding scary the sea is! There’s, like, whales and storms and shit! They don’t bloody tell you that!
You can never know about about your own destiny: are the people you meet there to play a part on your oun destiny, or do you exist just to play a role in theirs?
What is the French word for rain? Le rain? La rain? Is the rain masculine or feminine? It’s such a bother that it must be masculine.
Weren't you wearing a purity ring when we got here? Aren't you supposed to be saving yourself? Shanti asked. Yeah, Mary Lou answered. And then I thought, for what? You save leftovers. My sex is not a...
Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villians... And magic itself is neither good nor bad; it is intent that makes it either.
People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept.
Let's be brave girls, shall we?
It was hard to feel safe in the world when you were a girl.
He's attracted to the smell of manure, Felicity says. You might wallow in the stables to bring out the full flower of his love.
A bonfire billowed up. Some in the crowd tossed copies of Ladybird's book into the fire while a librarian pleaded with them not to do that and grabbed a fire extinguisher.**Really, being a librarian i...
Just because you're funny doesn't mean you get to be cruel.
We're each of us our own chiaroscuro, our own bit of illusion trying to emerge into something solid, something real. We've got to forgive ourselves that. I must remember to forgive myself. Because the...
Sam had a skill that often let him take what he needed. But you couldn’t do that with love. It had to be given. Shared.
Oh, honey, of course it hurts! Beauty is pain. But you don't want to look like a troll, do you?
I shan't ever understand your willingness to lie down and die, Felicity bars. If you won't at least try to fight, I have no sympathy for you.
As a kid, I imagined lots of different scenarios for my life. I would be an astronaut. Maybe a cartoonist. A famous explorer or rock star. Never once did I see myself standing under the window of a ho...