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“The first time you share tea, you are a stranger. The second time you share tea, you are an honored guest. The third time you share tea, you become family.”
― T.J. Klune, Under the Whispering Door

“It’s never enough, is it? Time. We always think we have so much of it, but when it really counts, we don’t have enough at all.”
― T.J. Klune, Under the Whispering Door

“Death isn’t a final ending, Wallace. It is an ending, sure, but only to prepare you for a new beginning.”
― T.J. Klune, Under the Whispering Door

“Good tea is patience. It’s not about instant gratification, not like the bags with the little strings. Those can be fleeting, here and gone again before you know it. Tea like this makes you appreciate the effort you put into it. The more it steeps, the stronger the taste.”
― T.J. Klune, Under the Whispering Door

“Whoever told you that you were funny obviously lied and you should feel bad about it.”
― T.J. Klune, Under the Whispering Door

“I’d hate to know everything. There’d be no mystery left. What would be the point?”
― T.J. Klune, Under the Whispering Door

“It took you dying to find your humanity.”
― T.J. Klune, Under the Whispering Door

“I don't know if I wanna eat cheese made from sheep. I feel like we need to talk about dairy in general. Who is the first guy who decided to squeeze the thing hanging off an animal and drink whatever came out? Because you KNOW it was a guy - a woman would never be that dumb. Do you think he was dared to do it by his caveman friends? Like, they started with cattle, and then worked their way to a sabertooth...”
― T.J. Klune, The Extraordinaries

“Be gay. Do crimes.”
― T.J. Klune, The Extraordinaries

“Your house isn't haunted! Your aunt is such a liar. She distracted me with cookies and lies!”
― T.J. Klune, The Extraordinaries

“There have to be trans extraordinaries. Do you think we'll get to meet them?"
Probably," Jazz said, "I've personally met an absurd amount of queer extraordinaries."
Poor straight people, they really don't get to have much. Except for fake white Jesus, do they?
They took a moment of silence for the heterosexuals.”
― T.J. Klune, Flash Fire

“You know how queer boys are in the wild. If they know they’re being watched, they get skittish and run for the forest.”
― T.J. Klune, Flash Fire

“I was a teenager once,” he’d said, arms folded. “I know what goes on in your minds. Oh, it’ll start off innocent, but then there’s Vaseline on the ceiling and where will we be then?”
― T.J. Klune, Flash Fire

“What did one do with another person’s penis, anyway?”
― T.J. Klune, Flash Fire

“And not to be outdone, Nick exclaimed, "Don't listen to them! I know for a fact dads are liars because I have incontrovertible proof that Seth doesn't orgasm fire!"

Silence, only interrupted by Seth banging his head against the nearest wall over and over, each hit punctuated by the word why.”
― T.J. Klune, Heat Wave

“Well?" Dad asked. "How do I look?"
"Like you want us to follow you into an
alley so you can flash us," Nick said.
"Like you own sixteen birds with
complicated backstories for each," Seth
said.
"Like you're the bass player in a Christian
punk band called Please Us, Jesus," Jazz
said, leaning her head out of Matilda.
"Like you have red satin sheets on your
bed and mirrors on the ceiling," Gibby said,
her head just above Jazz's.
"Like you know how to show a guy a
good time," Burrito Jerry said.
'they've got a point, man," Trey said as
Bob nodded. "I feel like you want to give me
a body-cavity search with gloves you
brouqht from home.”
― T.J. Klune, Heat Wave

“I can see the outline of your testicles, and it reminded me why I'm a lesbian,"
"Gibby!"
"Don't yell at me. I'm not the one who brought them out."
It's not my fault they're so big!”
― T.J. Klune, Heat Wave

“it also helped that they were amazing at
butt sex. Seriously. The first time had been
a bit of a disaster waaaay too much lube,
so much so that it'd been like a human Slip
'N Slide but every time after? Holy shit,
they should've gotten awards for some of
the stuff they did. Seth could be very
imaginative. Nick felt bad for the people
who couldn't have sex while flying. It was
really somethinq else.”
― T.J. Klune, Heat Wave

“When I dwelled in the wanting, it felt like and ocean, endlessly vast and moving just beneath the surface of my skin. If I stayed there, I would be swept away.”
― Maiga Doocy, Sorcery and Small Magics

“Oh, how I loved him. So much so that it was like a living thing, growing through every crack in me. Too hardy to kill.”
― Maiga Doocy, Sorcery and Small Magics

“I’ve often thought that kissing is a little like composing a spell. There are certain components that simply must be considered, and behind all of that, an unmistakable intent. But this was a different kind of magic altogether. The unthought-of, unlooked-for kind that swept over you in a rush, uncontrollable.”
― Maiga Doocy, Sorcery and Small Magics

“The heart is built of starlight
And time.
A pinprick of longing lost in the dark.
An unbroken chord linking the Infinite to the Infinite.
My heart wishes upon your heart and the wish is granted.
Meanwhile the world spins.
Meanwhile the universe expands.
Meanwhile the mystery of love reveals itself,
again and again, in the mystery of you.
I have gone.
I will return.
Glerk”
― Kelly Barnhill, The Girl Who Drank the Moon

“How many feelings can one heart hold?... Infinite, Luna thought. The way the universe is infinite. It is light and dark and endless motion; it is space and time, and space within space, and time within time. And she knew: there is no limit to what the heart can carry.”
― Kelly Barnhill, The Girl Who Drank the Moon

“Knowledge is power, but it is a terrible power when it is hoarded and hidden.”
― Kelly Barnhill, The Girl Who Drank the Moon

“Death is always sudden," Glerk said. His eyes had begun to itch. "Even when it isn't.”
― Kelly Barnhill, The Girl Who Drank the Moon

“Everything you see is in the process of making or unmaking or dying or living. Everything is in a state of change.”
― Kelly Barnhill, The Girl Who Drank the Moon

“Curiosity is the curse of the Clever. Or perhaps cleverness is the curse of the Curious. In any case, I am never lacking for either, I’m afraid, which does keep me rather busy.”
― Kelly Barnhill, The Girl Who Drank the Moon