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"She was getting bitchy.That was a good sign. "What am I supposed to do till you get back?" I said, patting the smouldering leather. "Hide in my closet? I"d rather be with you."
"Rachel, Rachel, Rachel,” he said, very still and unmoving. “Always jumping to the wrong conclusion. You’re like a frog, you know."
"Okay, you drive," she said. "I'll sit with m head hanging out of the window like a golden retriever."
"I can think of a lot of things to do," he said, "and none of them involve standing up. - Al"
"I’m not going anywhere with you, you little shoemaker,” I said (Rachel to Trent)"
"They tried to kill me,” he said, his brow furrowed as he glared at them. “You saw them!” “Yeah?” I spouted off. “They weren’t very good at it!” (Trent and Rachel)"
"“It is not everyone,” said Elinor, “who has your passion for dead leaves.”"
"Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it's a miracle that we don't dissolve in our baths."
"Whoever said ignorance was bliss was shortsighted."
"We have to leave!" I said to Vlad. "Now." "Run, Forest, run!" Vlad mocked. "Stow it, Drac," I snapped"
"Donald Trump was very receptive. Funny. Cracked some jokes. And understand it very well. And said he was in that he would work with us."
"Someone once said to me that success isn't everything and I think I know what they really meant. I believe what they really meant was that money wasn't everything and I certainly agree with that. But I do believe that success IS everything."
"I didn't know the inner me was hungry," I said to Art. "That's because it already starved to death."
"Nothing more than nothing can be said."
"Well, do you do that consciously?" Daily Alice asked, only partly of Cloud. "Do what?" Cloud said. "Grow up? No. Well. In a sense. You see it's inevitable, or refuse to. You greet it or don't -- take it in trade, maybe, for all you're going to lose anyway. Or you can refuse, and have what you've got to lose snatched from you, and never take payment -- never see a trade is possible."
"This is a f***ing mess," I said tactfully."
"I opened the door. He looked down at my shirt and smiled. "Funny," he said. "Don't call my boobs funny," I answered."
"The Romans knew it: quod me alit me extinguit, they said: That which nourishes me, extinguishes me."
"What happened?" "During the kiss?" "No, with you and Caroline." "Oh," he said. And then after a second, "Caroline is no longer suffering from personhood."
"Omnis cellula e cellula," he said again. "All cells come from cells. Every cell is born of a previous cell, which was born of a previous cell. Life comes from life. Life begets life begets life begets life begets life."
