“At first Mrs. Lapham tended to humor the ‘poor boy.’ As he preferred the birth and death room to the attic with Dove and Dusty, she had let him stay on. He had never in all his life slept in a bed alone—much less a whole room. He wanted to be alone. There was one trouble with his new quarters.”
― Johnny Tremain
― Johnny Tremain
“Whatever happens to me, I will have lived a thousand normal lives by what I might add to others not yet born.
That's enough.”
― Flowers for Algernon
That's enough.”
― Flowers for Algernon
“No one has the rights to summon you. Only Stardust. And that because she’s your mother and not the queen.”
― Yildun: Worldmaker of Yand
― Yildun: Worldmaker of Yand
“Life was about making sense out of the insensible. A ball of fire out of a clear blue sky? Must’ve been a meteorite, maybe debris from an airplane. Random flashes of light and color at night? A transformer blew up, you must’ve been dreaming, you’re talking crazy, quiet down, take your meds.”
― The Sixth Borough
― The Sixth Borough
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