“Let your curiosity run away with you. Know that beyond every ordinary explanation there is a deeper and more exciting discovery to be made.”
― The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles
― The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles
“Fine watches, I’d been told, were like rich people themselves: You could barely discern them working.”
― The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street
― The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street
“I can feel like a hag some days if I want! And I can tell everybody how insecure I am if I want! Or I can be pretty and pretend to think I'm a hag out of fake modesty –- I can do that if I want, too. Because you, Livingston, are not the boss of me and what kind of girl I become.”
― The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
― The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
“Pax amor et lepos in iocando. Latin for Peace, love and sense of fun.”
― The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles
― The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles
“It is better to be alone, she figures, than to be with someone who can’t see who you are. It is better to lead than to follow. It is better to speak up than stay silent. It is better to open doors than to shut them on people.”
― The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
― The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
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