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1 " Jay lurched in one direction, jerked back, lurched in another, tripped for no reason. He finally made it through a gauntlet of invisible obstacles and crouched behind a water fountain shaped like a hippopotamous throwing up. "
― Adam Rex , Fat Vampire: A Never Coming of Age Story
2 " They can't expect anyone to actually pay for a shirt that says, 'I (picture of an elephant) the San Diego Zoo.' What does that even mean? "
3 " Sneaky would be a lime-green Volkswagen. Nobody would suspect the assassins in the lime-green Volkswagen. "
― Adam Rex , Cold Cereal (The Cold Cereal Saga, #1)
4 " Then it suddenly and theatrically began to clean itself in the way cats do when they want you to know what a big deal you aren't. "
5 " The Freemen have 987 levels of membership, the first three of which are achieved merely by filling out an application. The 8th level is granted upon full acceptance into the local lodge, the 13th following Initiation, the 21st at the end of the Initiate's second week, and the 89th the first time he brings snacks. "
6 " He spun out enough toilet paper to vandalize a house and carefully cleaned the seat. "
7 " ...a row of tables manned by seated, serious women. Each woman looked like she could be someone's least-favourite aunt. "
8 " Project: Potential was a separate class that the gifted students went to for an hour each day. The name was supposed to make it exciting, like Code Name: Cursive or Mission: State Capitals. "
9 " Scottish Play Doe was born at 4:13 a.m. on September 6th. The ink was barely dry on his father's new tattoo. "
10 " Polly Esther Doe was born at 8:03 a.m. on August 14. "
11 " There's a little bit of magic in every box! "
12 " There you go. Perfect. And can you still throw up at will like you could in sixth grade? That would be good. "
13 " We could have made it to the Arizona border in a few more hours if we hadn't been distracting each other with stupid little arguments. Don't get me wrong; I liked J.Lo fine. I've made that bed. But I'm not sure there's a person in the world I could be with twenty-four hours a day for three weeks without getting a little snippy. If I ever meet such a person, I'm marrying them. "
― Adam Rex , The True Meaning of Smekday
14 " Why would a vampire create a younger vampire if there was a possibility the young one might end up destroying the old one?'Stephin stared. 'If you can explain to me how this is different from parenting in general I might know how to answer that. "
15 " Sejal had not thought of her home, or of India as a whole, as cool. She was dimly aware, however, of a white Westerner habit of wearing other cultures like T-shirts—the sticker bindis on club kids, sindoor in the hair of an unmarried pop star, Hindi characters inked carelessly on tight tank tops and pale flesh. She knew Americans liked to flash a little Indian or Japanese or African. They were always looking for a little pepper to put in their dish. "
16 " The United States was a big country where everybody wore funny t-shirts and ate too much. "
17 " There was less than I’d expected in the rainy-day fund that Mom had kept in the bottom of an underwear drawer in a panty hose egg labeled ‘DEAD SPIDERS.’ As if I hadn’t always known it was there. As if I wouldn’t want to look at dead spiders. "
― Adam Rex
18 " Wherefor are you knowing it? If you stacked all of the Gorg in the galaxy on top of eachother, the Gorg would kill you. "
19 " The Boov frowned. 'Everybodies always is wanting to make a clone for to doing their work. If you are not wanting to do your work, why would a clone of you want to do your work? "
20 " Soon the Boov was in the ghost suit and Pig was in the car, which would be a good lyric for a bluegrass song, now that I think of it. "
