The only way to be reliably sure the hero gets the girl at the end of the story is to be both the hero and the girl yourself.
“I am not spending twenty dollars on a candle,” said my mother. Phil pulled her to her feet. She was clearly favoring her ankle and had to lean on his arm. “For twenty dollars, it would have to give me an orgasm every time I lit it.” Phil made a small sound of emotional distress.”
― A House with Good Bones
― A House with Good Bones
“My hair is a comb-eating monster that is technically “curly,” in the same way that a cassowary is technically a bird.”
― A House with Good Bones
― A House with Good Bones
“So you're telling me I should hide my kebabs? - Nahri”
― The City of Brass
― The City of Brass
“She had on leopard-print leggings and an oversized T-shirt that read OREGON: FIFTY MILLION BANANA SLUGS CAN’T BE WRONG.”
― A House With Good Bones
― A House With Good Bones
“It's not haunted". Wajed countered. "It simply... misses its founding family."
"The stairs vanished under me the last time I was there, uncle," Ali pointed out. "The water in the fountains turns to blood so often than people don't drink it."
"So it misses them a lot.”
― The City of Brass
"The stairs vanished under me the last time I was there, uncle," Ali pointed out. "The water in the fountains turns to blood so often than people don't drink it."
"So it misses them a lot.”
― The City of Brass
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