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"Hold my hand because I might disappear."

"I didn't want my name changed. It was all I had."

"or accidently eating a death cap mushroom."

or accidently serving it in Beef Wellington...

"And also I used the f-word twice in conversation with Principal Lund, but I promise it was warranted."

'I never called you a slut when you -'
'When I what?'
Miles looks me dead-on. 'When you deserved it.'

He's a creeper and a bastard

"Is this how it felt for her? Like she might vibrate out of her skin? Like she had so much energy and nowhere for it to go?"

I've read Holly Black's Elfhame stories way too many times and Oak's name is doing my head in. Then he tells the story of two Giants who kill each other, a version of which is told in The Stolen Heir. Is that literary allusion to Holly Black? She's up there with Shakespeare...

"For so long, I've thought about this. The final moment of our friendship. The pain was breathtaking. I felt it every time I saw her that summer, and every day after that... It was brutal. Like we were ripped apart, edges torn and jagged. Sharp."

They don't want to look at her?? How about they call the police

I'm not reading this cover, but it's so much better than the other one...

"This is the trouble with girls like me. We don't stop, don't listen, don't shut up, don't say the right thing, don't say anything when it matters most."

"If current trends continue, then by around 2050 visitors to the Great Barrier Reef will arrive to find rapidly eroding rubble banks."

"It feels unfair that I stay in the dark because of what they decided to see in me."

"I never learned her name. The filing system in my head deemed her unimportant."

"Basic kindness is a real jump-scare for me."

"Dafty yelled in sheer excitement as he and Banjo plunged to their deaths, just like he was on a roller-coaster at the Royal Show."

It's good to die with a smile on your face

'Is that what you're wearing?'
'I'm not wearing anything.'
'I don't think it's that kind of party.'

These two are priceless

'You're better than this, Jo.'
But maybe I'm not.

"Who tells the truth of who they are when they first meet someone anyway."

Um, Eleanor, most of us...

"Humans are putting carbon back into the air that has been sequestered for tens - in most cases hundreds - of millions of years. In the process, we are running geologic history not only in reverse but at warp speed."

"Time is the essential ingredient, but in the modern world there is no time." - Rachel Carson

"Unfortunately, a rat can hang from a chandelier for only so long before he is discovered."

'The more we know of the [paleo] climate and vegetation,' said a state geologist, 'the better we'll be able to assess the oil and gas potential there.'

🙄

"Now and then, the North Pole wanders and, for years or centuries, makes off to Antarctica."

WTF

'The sorts of changes that Crutzen had enumerated [in describing the Anthropocene] would, they decided, leave behind "a global stratigraphic signature" that would still be legible millions of years from now, the same way that, say, the Ordovician glaciation left behind a "stratigraphic signature" that is still legible today.'

"The work is going well, but it looks like it might be the end of the world."

We fixed that end of the world (CFCs and the ozone layer) why can't we do it now??

"Zalasiewicz believes that we have entered a new epoch, which has no analog in Earth's history. 'Geologically,' he has observed, 'this is a remarkable episode.'"

"I used to be cool, but now I'm not, so no one likes me anymore."

"There's a fine line between Biggest Flirt and Senior Slut; I just never knew it existed until I crossed it."

"We'd almost choke trying not to laugh, since we were stupid and stoned and certain nothing could touch us."