Summer Scicchitano

“Everyone who has ever been in pain knows that morphine and magic are the same.”
― Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches

“Are you all right? I know last night was kind of scary.”
“I just didn’t expect it. It was asparagus. . . . He literally punched someone over a vegetable.”
Kile laughed. “See, this is why you stick with butter.”
“Oh, you and your stupid butter.” ”
― Kiera Cass, The Heir

“As on Earth, weight-bearing exercise is the best way to hang on to your bone. In zero gravity, of course, you have to create your weight.”
― Mary Roach, Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void

“Because that's what the story's really about: getting out of paying your debts. That's not how they tell it, but I knew. My father was a moneylender, you see.”
― Naomi Novik, Spinning Silver