Marian

“Yes ma'am," I said, "Anna Celeste's party is Saturday, but I don't need a ride.... No ma'am. It's because Anna Celeste is my Sworn Enemy for Life and I'd rather go face-down in a plate of raw chicken entrails than go to her party. Plus I'm not invited....”
― Sheila Turnage, Three Times Lucky

“How dense and literal it is. I thought it had a much more sophisticated brain."
"Your mother is dense," Alif said wearily.
"My mother was an errant crest of sea foam. But that is neither here nor there.”
― G. Willow Wilson, Alif the Unseen

“I think we're going back to the way things use to be, before a bunch of European intellectuals in tights decided to draw a line between what's rational and what's not. I don't think our ancestors thought the distinction was necessary.”
― G. Willow Wilson

“Dale can't tolerate other people throwing up. He gets what's known as the Synchronized Heaves.”
― Sheila Turnage, Three Times Lucky