“You know ginger’s an accent, right? Like a spice?” “What? No. Really?” “Did you try to eat it whole?” “Oh, dear. Yes.” Dr. Chef rumbled a laugh. “I thought it was some sort of spicy potato.”
― The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
― The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
“But...I'm not as brave as you Sir Ladybug.
Hmm...There are lots of different kinds of brave. There's fight-with-a-sword brave and there's stand-in-front-of-people-and-talk-brave.”
― Sir Ladybug
Hmm...There are lots of different kinds of brave. There's fight-with-a-sword brave and there's stand-in-front-of-people-and-talk-brave.”
― Sir Ladybug
“Time could crawl, it could fly, it could amble. Time was a slippery thing.”
― The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
― The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
“Ridiculous, I know. I don’t pretend to understand. Frankly, I find the whole notion absurd. But you know what I realized? It doesn’t matter what I think. Jenks thinks something different, and his pain is very real right now. Me knowing how stupid this whole thing is doesn’t make him hurt any less.” “We—”
― The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
― The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
“Want and intelligence,’ the historian had written, ‘is a dangerous combination.”
― The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
― The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
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