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“Next, she pushed aside the sheet of paper and lifted the book. She asked if I understood any of the words, and I shook my head. She then pointed at several of the shorter words -- she, cart, plum -- and explained how each letter made its own sound, and how words strung together on paper could convey an idea, a story.
Like magick, I thought. It was everywhere, if only one knew to look.”
― The Lost Apothecary
Like magick, I thought. It was everywhere, if only one knew to look.”
― The Lost Apothecary
“Fill my lungs up with the that sweet, sweet city smog and let me suffocate in a place with bodegas.”
― A Special Place for Women
― A Special Place for Women
“God, Shall I compare thee to an icebox pie? Couldn't be gayer if she tried.”
― I Kissed Shara Wheeler
― I Kissed Shara Wheeler
“Get a clarifying shampoo and suck it up, Kylo Ren.”
― I Kissed Shara Wheeler
― I Kissed Shara Wheeler
“Someone should tell you that you're beautiful every time the sun comes up. Someone should tell you you're beautiful on Wednesdays. And at teatime. Someone should tell you you're beautiful on Christmas Day and Christmas Eve and the evening before Christmas Eve, and on Easter. He should tell you on Guy Fawkes Night and on New Year's, and on the eighth of August, just because.”
― Anatomy: A Love Story
― Anatomy: A Love Story
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