skittles

“Lucy doesn't like orange juice with floating bits,' George said. 'You remember.'
'Oh, yes. That's right. They get caught between your teeth, don't they?'
I was staring at him. My warm feeling had partially retreated. 'I'll take the orange juice. So Holly stayed over last night?'
'Personally I've always thought straining it through your teeth is part of the fun,' Lockwood said. 'You can pretend you're a blue whale.”
― Jonathan Stroud, The Creeping Shadow

“Rob's breath were pushing over my ear, his chest puffing up underneath me. His heart were beating so close to my own that it calmed me for sheer distraction.”
― A.C. Gaughen, Scarlet

“This is what the Problem means,” he went on. “This is the effect it has. Lives lost, loved ones taken before their time. And then we hide our dead behind iron walls and leave them to the thorns and ivy. We lose them twice over, Lucy. Death’s not the worst of it. We turn our faces away.”
― Jonathan Stroud, The Empty Grave

“You're not our leader,' Dave said.
'No, but I know what I'm doing, which is a nice alternative.' - Lucy”
― Jonathan Stroud, The Creeping Shadow