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“Hot seems to be about guys liking you. Beautiful is about liking how you look.”
― Julie Buxbaum, Tell Me Three Things

“At the sound of her voice, the octopus unfurls from behind a rock, a starburst of orange and yellow and white.”
― Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

“Humans sometimes say my heart skipped a beat to convey surprise, shock, terror. This confused me at first because my organ heart skips beats, many of them, every time I swim. But when the cleaning woman fell from the stool, I was not swimming. And yet it stuttered.”
― Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

“I was too wretched to reject comfort of any kind when I was so seldom offered it.”
― Abigail Johnson