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That's quite a performance you gave earlier [...] I'm sure the theater lost a fine actor when you chose to devote yourself to murder and cannibalism.

There are many answers to be found within," he said, "if you only know what to look for.

Notes are absolutely essential to the process.

The bird only keeps good things about the future to herself, but you can bet we hear all the brown-trouser bits.

No one can hurt you as badly as the people you love.

As he always says, the day there's no time for manners, the world's lost to us anyway.

How many times must I tell you," She called after him, "polite persons do not take their supper in the nude!

It's easy to say you don't care about money when you have plenty of it.

Oh, lovely. Improvised suicide.

Because if Grandpa Portman wasn't honorable and good, I wasn't sure anyone could be.

It was like robbing a bank: getting the money was only half the job. Then you had to get away with the money.

So please enjoy these Tales - before a crackling fire on a chilly night, ideally,

The trouble with the merely unwise/deeply stupid line is that you often don't know which side you're on until it's too late.

A song and a smile from someone I cared about could be enough to distract me from all that darkness, if only for a little while.

You tread a precariously thin line between being charmingly headstrong and insufferably pigheaded.

Emma shook her head. Doubt is the pinprick in the life raft.

Such was the way the sad world turned.

You may choose to live in a world of fantasy if you like, my dear, but I am a realist.

Only birds can manipulate time. Therefore, all time manipulators must be able to take the form of a bird.

I find this contagion of optimism positively flabbergasting,

because the easiest kind of lying is when you leave things out of a story rather than make them up, I passed with flying colors.

If you must fail," he said grandly, "fail spectacularly!

That was our friendship: equal parts irritation and cooperation.

With each step and each turn, we threaded deeper inside a knot, one I feared we'd never work apart. The

Oh, thank heavens! Someone remembered the bath mat," Enoch deadpanned. "We are saved.

Because, I thought, a line from Tolkien materializing in my head, one does not simply walk into Mordor.

Inside was a tableau of frustration that might've been straight out of Norman Rockwell, if Norman Rockwell had painted people doing hard time in jail.

I swear on my life, one day I'll personally escort all those that hurt my sisters to Hell.

He was lucky in a way. It wasn't long and drawn-out. No months in a hospital hooked up to machines.

Upon closer inspection I decided it was, like a lot of things, not as pretty up close as it seemed from a distance.

He was scared of us, and that, more than anything else, made me scared of him. His fear made him unpredictable.

Miracle. Curse. I hadn't quite worked out the difference.

It was easy to believe that everything was just as the children left it, as if time had stopped the night the died.

They may love you," she whispered, "but they'll never understand.

Weatherman says," Kev scoffed. "I wouldn't trust that silly bugger to know it's raining now.

She had a heart the size of France and the lucky few whom she loved, she loved with every square inch of it. But it's size made it dangerous.

Their memory was something tangible and heavy, and I would carry it with me.

It's called Stockholm syndrome," I said. "When people start to sympathize with their captors.

Why did we have more than we knew what to do with, while they had less than they needed to stay alive?

And suddenly I wanted nothing more than to close all the little gaps that existed between our bodies, to collapse into one being.

Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid..and wish you'd just stayed in bed?

If I'd kept my heart better armored, where would I be now?

He isn't normal," Emma said, grimacing as if this were the direst insult. "He's one of us!

What am I supposed to fight then with, the goddamned butter knife?

Not to mention the lack of a seatbelt on a horse

Can you imagine, in a world so afraid of otherness, why this would be a danger to all peculiar-kind?

I'd felt so many things since our journey began - joy, fear, hope, horror - but until now, I'd never once felt alone.

Her flame with a clap of her hands. Bronwyn dropped the boy and he stumbled away. The Gypsies fled back to their wagons or into the woods.

I love sad stories," said Enoch. "Especially ones where princesses get eaten by dragons and everyone dies in the end.

We slid down on our behinds, little avalanches of sand pouring around our feet and down our pants.

Flesh on the outside, metal on the inside.

The real purpose of money is to manipulate others and make them feel lesser than you.

We're peculiar," he replied, sounding a bit puzzled. "Aren't you?

Run, rabbit, run, rabbit, run, run, RUN! Bang, bang, BANG goes the farmer's gun He'll get by without his rabbit pie, so Run, rabbit, run, rabbit, RUN!

There are peculiars all over the world," she said, "though our numbers are much diminished from what they once were.

A blinding yellow track suit and fake gold chains.

I had slain my demons already, but the victories were fleeting; others had risen up quickly to replace them. My

Maybe," she said. "Maybe. But now you're making promises you might not be able to keep, and that's how people in love get very badly hurt.

UK - that was Britain.

Perhaps she was born in the wrong body.

An opportunist disguised as a friend can be every bit as dangerous as an outright enemy.

We are echolocators," Joel-and-Peter said. They were also, apparently, very sharp of hearing.

Dylan laughed and they exchanged a series of complex, multistage handshake-fist-bump-high-fives.

I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.

He was a human exclamation point, but carried himself with such dignity that I couldn't laugh at him.

If even outcasts and downtrodden folk like yourselves can't muster a bit of compassion for others, then there's no hope for this world.

What're you going to do," he said, "pollinate it to death?

Sometimes I can't decide whether you're completely mad or some sort of miracle,

We were like astronauts floating through a starless universe.

By morning I was worn out. My limbs felt heavy as wood, my head cottony. I might've felt better if I hadn't slept at all.

Just because they knew it was lost didn't mean they knew how to let it go.

No one here is embarrassed of their gift.

There were too many things to be terrified of, a hundred horror scenarios all vying for attention in my brain.

They worried that fantasies were somehow inoculating me against more practical realities.

But this wasn't a safe, controlled environment I was learning in. There were no bumper lanes to keep my ball out of the gutter.

We aren't so different. Outcasts and wanderers all - souls clinging to the margins of the world.

Someone's got to be the hero," he replied, and walked off across the hull.
"Famous last words," I muttered.

I do," he replied.
And that was all it took.

I'd always known I was strange. I never dreamed I was peculiar.

He was, I suppose, my best friend, which is a less pathetic way of saying he was my only friend.

all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize that we were alone? I

I love being peculiar, Jacob- It's the very core of who i am. But there are days i wish i could turn it off.

The human psyche was much more flexible than I'd imagined, capable of expanding to contain all sorts of contradictions and seeming impossibilities.

my brain is a hope-making engine.

They also - finally - let me quit Smart Aid. "Feeling better" became my new job.

For his many sacrifices, he received only scorn and suspicion from those he loved.

Wait here.
Hell I am. Why?
Because you're six-five and have green hair and my grandfather doesn't know you and owns lots of guns.

I could taste Millard's blood in the water.

There was something sweet about holding a tangible thing that had been touched and marked upon by someone I loved.

A world so afraid of otherness.

Buy one get none free!

I imagine we're killing ourselves right now in al manner of ways that'll seem insane to people in the future.

Laughing doesn't make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better.

When it comes to big things in life, there are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason.

The kitchen was a science experiment gone terribly wrong - entire

He was cross-examining my subconscious .

Males lack the seriousness of temperament required of persons with such great responsibilities.

I didn't know what to call it, what was happening between us, but I liked it. It felt silly and fragile and good.

But once a place had been discovered and cataloged and mapped, it was diminished, just another dusty fact in a book, sapped of mystery.

It's not that I forgot; it just stopped bothering me. The strangest thing.