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My cholera's acting up again.

I have seen what a handful of girls can do. They can hold back an army if necessary, so please don't tell me it isn't possible.

The world's most bada** Viking yard gnome is on the counter by the cash register using a dinner plates as a shield and a steak knife as a sword

That's some moon"
"Stop talking about my ass, you beast.

She knew what it was to wait for someone who would never come home. She knew that grief, like a scar, faded but never really went away.

You can't believe how bleeding scary the sea is! There's, like, whales and storms and shit! They don't bloody tell you that!

We're all damaged, somehow.

To those who will see, the world waits.

You are truly Satan's sequined spawn.

Things aren't good or bad in and of themselves. It's what we do with them that makes them so.

Blood is thicker than water. That's what they say. But in truth, most things are.

I will never, ever drink whiskey again. From now on, it's strictly sherry.

I'm sorry,' he says simply. 'People make mistakes, Gemma. We take the wrong action for the right reasons, and the right action for the wrong reasons.

Maybe girls need an island to find themselves. Maybe they need a place where no one's is watching them so they can be who they really are

She's no beauty, mate

Just once I'd like to meet a fella who isn't a phony. Somebody who doesn't wanna buy me a fur so he can show me off to his boys.

I have never felt more ridiculous. If this is what it means to be a woman I am not the slightest bit interested.

'The Catcher in the Rye.' When I was a teenager, that was my book; yes, somebody gets it, somebody gets adolescence.

This is how it is now. There is strength in acceptance, Ling. Your legs have been taken from you. But how you choose to live with that has not.

My mom's al like sparkle sparkle sparkle and I'm all like sparkle yourself

Miss Teen Dreamers. It is time to get ahold of ourselves. Miss Alabama, I did not mean that literally. That is gross. Stop it. Taylor

Come on, Father. Stop me. Tell me to behave, to go to hell, something, anything.

Do you think they missed him terribly when he fell? Did God cry over his lost angel, I wonder?

Naughty John, Naughty John, does his work with his apron on. Cuts your throat and takes your bones, sells 'em off for a coupla stones.

Wow, you're awesome and The universe loves a winner, so the universe must really love you!

Are you saying we're not ravish-worthy?

I invited myself. Thought this table needed some class.

Idealism is just an escape from reality. There is no utopia.

Everyone's dying. A little, every day. Make it count.

Fashionable debutantes in pastel chiffon party dresses wilt into leather club chairs like frosted petit fours melting under the July sun.

It keeps her purity vacum-sealed to preserve its freshness for her future husband.

All things are possible.

You evah hear of a magic screw?'
I cough back a laugh. 'No. No, sir.

There's an -or- in -whore- because you always have a choice to respect your body and say no.

Does my new feminism make me look fat?

Felicity and I watch the dancers moving as one. They spin about like the earth on it's axis, enduring the dark, waiting for the sun.

I am no longer content to be the scared, obedient schoolgirl. Who are you, a stranger, to tell me what I can and cannot do?

When the world moves forward too fast for some people, they try to pull us all back with their fear.

I know I've done the right thing but I couldn't feel worse about it, and I suppose that is part of what it is to lead.

No? Part girl, part wolf? Do they lick their butter knives?

Your mother and I do not approve of drinking. Have you not heard of the Eighteenth Amendment?"
"Prohibition? I drink to its health whenever I can.

Chasing after words like trying to grab the tails of comets.

I had thought Felicity dangerous a moment ago, when she felt powerful. I was wrong. Wounded and powerless, she is more dangerous than I could imagine.

I had a friend who said, "You don't have an internal critic. You have an internal sadist."

I'm from the health department. You've heard of Typhoid Mary? This fella's got enough typhoid to start his own colony.

It's so laughable that it's somewhere beyond comedy and right into tragedy again.

You know, people, just being beautiful isn't enough."
Tiara looked confused. "But ... it always has been.

All the small, simple, conscious acts of living a sudden defense against the dying we do every day.

I am a lot of things, not all of them noble.

I change the world, the world changes me.

One can never go back. One always has to move forward.

Dead bodies are such trouble, Evie said with a little sigh, and Mabel had to turn her head away so as not to laugh.

I can see his pain, see it in the way he runs his fingers through his hair, over and over, and I understand what it costs him to hide it all.

It's possible to pretend I'm someone other than who I am, and if I pretend long enough, I can believe it.

Oh, I've a love, a true, true love, who waits upon yon shore ... and if my love won't be my love, then I will live no more ...

I took Advanced PowerPoint last semester. You guys are always misunderestimating me. I'm totally ready to handle the big stuff.

How can my ankles and arms be obscene?

Dude, this is a stoner conversation and we're not even high

They swoon over Tom, who preens for them, bowing, which sets them to blushing and giggling.
God help us all.

No historians or librar ians were harmed in the making of this book, but some were badgered extensively with questions.

I thought I was having an existential crisis, but it was nothing.
Please don't tailgate: body in trunk.

Free the snow globes!

When you looked up to the sky and cried 'Why?' sometimes the sky shrugged, yet other times it answered with warm assurance of linked hands.

But we can't go back. We can only go forward.

A token of bathroom stoner etiquette.

Reason was for suckers and Presbyterians.

Travel opens your mind as few other things do.

I am for hockey. I find I should like to hit something with a stick.
-Gemma Doyle Trilogy

He's attracted to the smell of manure," Felicity says. "You might wallow in the stables to bring out the full flower of his love.

i salute your spunk, but question your sanity.

Instead, I try to adjust to the dawn, letting the tears fall where they may, because it is morning; it is morning and there is so much to see.

I'm not interested in being polite. It's false.

No one can steal our dream.

There's no such thing as nothing. In every nothing, there's a something. In fact, there could be everything!

There are times when one friend requires the blind faith of another ...

They see her differently now, as somebody. And isn't that what everyone wants? To be seen?

Sorry for all the pain and loneliness and disappointment. But there is this, too.

But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on.

In every end, there is also a beginning.

My misery is reaching epidemic proportions.

We're never prepared for how much we love our children, for how much we wish we could protect them by being perfect.

Do not be tempted by English roses. Their beauty fades, but their thorns are forever.

I told him Friday was a different religious occasion: Doctor Who. Hey, it's not my fault they don't have TiVo yet.

It's always darkest before the ultimate sparkle.

Without further warning, the sky opens up and cries.

I wonder how many times each day she dies a little.

He took her face into his hands and his kiss blotted out the sky

I am a jumble of passions, misgivings, and wants. It seems that I am always in a state of wishing and rarely in a state of contentment.

They have money and position and Ann has none.It's amazing how often you can be right as long as you have those two things working in your favor.

Next time we see you, you'll be on trial for some ingenious crime!" Dottie said with a laugh. Evie grinned. "Just as long as they know my name.

There's a moment of profound sadness that can be dispelled only by summoning my anger.

Corrupt my brother, will you? I'll see you in hell first, sir.

My family traditions are alcoholism and dysfunction," Jennifer said. "Oh, and anything you can make from government cheese.

One day, Evie O'Neill, you're gonna fall head over heels for me!

We have work to do if you are not to be a total failure like high-waisted, acid-wash jeans.

Evie didn't mind yelling, but she hated feeling judged. It got under her skin and made her feel small and ugly and unfixable.

Think: who has vans, huh? Soccer moms and serial killers.

With a low bow, she is gone in a haze of roses and hope

There is a time in every life when paths are chosen, character is forged. I could have chosen a different path. But I didn't. I failed myself.

What do you feel? I've never been asked this question once. None of us has. We aren't supposed to feel. We're British.