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"He'll die first, we both know it, but I don't know... I really don't know how long I'll stay alive without him. That's the part Shaun doesn't know. I don't intend to be an only child for long."
"Are you ever not a pessimist?" "Sometimes. But then I wake up."
"Any good Irwin can make going to the corner store for a candy bar and a Coke lood death defying and suicidal."
"Now I'm a God, but tomorrow, when you have to stop me from playing with dead things again, you'll be right back to calling me an idiot, won't you?"
"Sometimes in the news, "luck" is just a matter of "capitalizing on someone else's pain."
"Shaun get your sister her glasses. She looks naked without them. It's creeping me out."
"When you're going to play with dead things, do it during the daylight."
"Sometimes you need lies to stay alive."
"George, she says it's the truth that matters. We live and die for the chance to maybe tell a little bit of the truth, maybe shame the Devil just a little bit before we go."
"Didn't we talk about this?" "HAIL!" "That isn't an answer." I planted my hands on my hips. "Was there a reason for shoving the gummy bears off the counter? Did they tell you they were suicidal? On second thought," I raised a hand, palm out, "don't answer that. If the candy is talking, I don't want to know."
"Do we have to have the 'don't lie to the telepath' talk again? It won't take long. I say 'don't lie to the telepath, it never works,' you glare at me, and then you go find something you can hit."
"I really don’t think you should put your hand inside the manticore, dear. You don’t know where it’s been.” –Enid Healy"
"Some lines were never meant to be crossed, however good your cause may seem."
"I recommend Avon Skin-So-Soft. It’s a bath product. It smells like someone fed a Disney Princess through a juicer, but it works better than anything else on the market."
"Mother Nature is a freaky lady who probably created pot so she could spend all her time smoking it."
"I honestly have no idea what's going on anymore. I just need to find something I can hit. (Shaun Mason)"
"Never tell anyone to be careful, never ask what that noise was, and for the love of God, never, ever say that you'll be right back." —Evelyn Baker"
"Sarah turned her narrow-eyed gaze on him, making me glad once more that Antimony's comic books got it wrong, and telepaths can't actually kill you with their brains. Give you a whopping headache and earworm you with annoying jingles, yes; kill you, no. (Although sometimes, when she's managed to stick "The Happy Banana Song" in my head for a week, I sort of wish she could kill people with her brain. It would be kinder.)"
"My name is October Christine Daye; I live in a city by the sea where the fog paints the early morning, parking is more precious than gold, and Kelpies wait for the unwary on street corners. Neither of the worlds I live in is quite mine, but no one can take them away from me. I did what had to be done, and I think I may finally be starting to understand what's important. It's all about finding the way home, wherever that is. I plan on finding out. I have time."
"She laughed like she'd just invented laughter."