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Rise and shine, porcupines!

Keep calm and carry on.
Also, stay in and hide because the Ripper is coming.

Sometimes people graduate but they don't leave. They hang around for years, for no reason. I would think of ghosts like that, I decided.

We study there a lot because ... what other choice does society give us, right? It's Starbucks or death, sometimes.

I live alone," Knud said, "and I work alone, but I am never truly alone. I do my ancestor's work. I live the entire history of my country and people.

I love Ginny's expedition!

Go see old virgins! Now ask a strange boy out, you shy, Retarded thing!

Money is for doing things, my love. Don't sit on it like a hen sits on an egg. It doesn't hatch. I should know. I've made enough of it.

Prefects. I had learned this one. Student council types, but with superpowers. They who must be obeyed.

Rory, do you want to go live in the sky? On a Pegasus?

Walk really, really carefully. It's not complicated, but if you mess up, you'll die, so pay attention.

I had always liked him, but it never occurred to me to like him, like him.

My final word: don't follow your dreams ... chase them. With a stick, or a shovel, or whatever you have handy. Get that [bleep]ing dream!

A woman who shaves or otherwise depilates her pubic curls has a profound interest in recreational sex.

Salt. Wound. Together at last.

You have to imagine your way through. Never say something can't be done, even if it's weird.

You can never visit the same place twice. Each time, it's a different story. By the very act of coming back, you wipe out what came before.

Once again, her parents' problems had run through her life like a piece of heavy equipment, smashing everything in their way.

I had always assumed the weekend was a holy tradition, respected by good people everywhere. Not so at Wexford.

He was the closest thing she had to a pony.

Every time you try to flirt with her, a puppy dies.

Things change. Never act is if situations won't change

Tell me what you want, what you really, really want," he said.
"Braiiinnnnssss," we said in unison.

I sleep better knowing that a naked cork-eater is not sneaking around at night, stealing my underwear.

I never shut up'
Yes, you do'
Not much'
I could make you shut up'
Oh, yeah? ... How?

People can't really sympathize with you properly when you've woken them up

I could pretend, at least, and if I pretended long enough, maybe I could make it into a reality.

I take my best lessons from nature, and nature says 'When something flies at your head- move.

What tinfoil?" he asked.

You could wear the same outfit every single day and no guy - who isn't gay - will notice.

I may have been a complete lunatic, but I was a complete lunatic with manners.

and things that looked just like palaces even thought they probably weren't.

Sometimes it is worth any amount of suffering just to prevent giving your parents the opportunity to be right.

We all know what we're doing. Whether we realize it or not.

Running away is pretty pathetic, but it's even worse getting caught.

It's always easier to say good-bye when you know it's just a prelude to hello.

I guess life is full of maybes.

Braiiinnnnssss," we said in unison.
"It's both sad and incredibly impressive that you were all ready with that one.

Fear can't hurt you. When it washes over you, give it no power. it's a snake with no venom.

Can I tell you something you really don't want to hear? He's going to break up with you. - Stuart

But when we live, we believe that we have a right to everything in the universe - that everything is ours to touch.

And if we get caught, I will claim I made you go. At gunpoint. I am American. People will assume I'm armed.

Charlotte had been beaten over the head with a lamp by an invisible man. I was prepared to give her a pass.

People don't change . . . You just sort of have to take them like they are.

It was as if the news itself wanted to reassure me. Even Jack the Ripper himself had reappeared as part of the greeting committee.

I have no phobias. Phobias are irrational. My fears are rational and CAREFULLY CULTIVATED, like roses.

Well, what now? You have no job. I have no job. Wanna play Jenga?

Irony is the word I forget the meaning of immediately after I look it up, but I kind of feel like I live in a constant state of it.

Something about this boat screamed, I am a very popular model in the world's oil-bearing regions. I cost more than your soul!

Fear can't hurt you," she said. "When it washes over you, give it no power. It's a snake with no venom. Remember that. That knowledge can save you.

I knew it was beautiful, but knowing something is beautiful and caring about it are two very different things, and I didn't care.

She firmly held the theory that everyone gets at least one very stupid superpower.

It was like the entire world was colluding to make me feel insane, and it was doing a really good job.

It just seemed like telling the truth would mean admitting some weakness

It could have been like a fairy tale. But fairy tales aren't real. Things don't work like that. There's a price for everything.

I am a mass of contradictions.

We Deveauxs preferred to talk you to death, rather than face you in physical combat.

I like you because you were mad. And you're pretty. And pretty sane for a mad person.

The kids I talk to are readers, and the craziest, the most dedicated readers you will ever see.

Although it was very cold, he wore no coat. I think some English people think coats are for the weak.

English rain feels obligatory, like paperwork. It dampens already damn days and slicks the stones.

No one in history had ever done less and yet been so wrong.

New start or not, there was a line to be drawn, and that line was singing musicals to yourself as serious psychological motivation.

Hey! Jack the Wanker! Over here! I want your autograph!

Sometimes you have to see the bathroom to know the hard reality of things.

The expression is: a boy's best friend is his mother. It's not: a boy's best pimp is his mother. It is that way for a reason.

You want to go back to my house the long way?" he asked.
"Or the shortcut? You have to be cold-"
"Long way," I replied. "The long way, for sure.

Welsh is an actual, currently used language and our next-door neighbors Angela and Gaenor spoke it. It sounds like Wizard.

Lecturing Brooks was as useful as lecturing a cat.

I miss you so much it's giving me a pain in my pancreas.

The best part, without any question, was the tie. I've always liked ties, but it seemed like too much of a Statement to wear them.

I feel warm and reassured," I whispered. "He's like Santa.

No sausage? he asked.
Apparently my pork consumption habits were a matter of public record.

I realize Jubilee is a bit of a stripper name. You probably think I have heard the call of the pole.

I'll go to Venice and drown my sorrows.

Being sixteen means you have to be a genius conversational editor.

Did I just kill someone?"
"You can't kill a dead person," Callum said. "Makes no sense.

Sometimes, life leaves you without directions, without guideposts or signs. When this happens, you just have to pick a direction and run like hell.

One person's crazy is another person's sane, I guess.

My rule is: the second you find yourself doing something you hate, quit doing it.

Hot tea," he said, holding the cups. "It's just wrong.

This wasn't a position she wanted to be in. And yet ... yet she knew that she was going to do it anyway.

Quarrels are a natural part of relationships. Making up is always the best part.

I felt the like blossom in me.

Were you playing with Stuart? she asked.
The question was loaded. I was a filthy, filthy woman, and even the five-year-old knew it.

I'm the last of the mad ones.

Something about her suggested that her leisure activities included wrestling large woodland animals and banging bricks together.

People always say they can't do things, that they're impossible. They just haven't been creative enough.

If they bulge in the brain or anywhere else of interest, the wallet is a good alternate location. And I should know.

Some nutter's gone and pulled a Jack the Ripper.

Why Paris? Paris needs no reason. Paris is its own reason.

You're not weird in the head.' 'There's a giant talking chicken next to me that would say otherwise.

There is nothing about a bad situation that fourteen hyper cheerleaders can't worsen.

And I think something is beautiful if it reveals something important about what it means to be alive.

It was clearly one of those mornings when I was particularly American.

What the hell is wrong with you? he asked.
It was a good question.

Writing is one of the few careers for which you essentially train yourself, the other two major ones being juggling and pickpocketing.

Nothing was quite like it was supposed to be.

Is this all right?" he asked. He was using that very low, somewhat husky universal kissing voice.
"Huh?" I said, because I am sexy.

She wasn't only gay, she was a gay elf.