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41 " St. George’s Chapel is at the bottom of the hill inside the castle walls, and though it is quaint compared to Westminster Abbey, I love it—the spectacular fan vaulting in the ceiling, the surprisingly intimate chapel with its wood-carved stalls, and the graves of at least ten monarchs, including that infamous cad Henry VIII (buried with his third wife, Jane Seymour, his favorite on account of her not living long enough to irritate him). "
― Heather Cocks , The Royal We (Royal We, #1)
42 " Art, Nick? Can you even draw stick people?""It's art history," he said. "These people painted my entire bloodline. I'm very useful. "
43 " You don’t stop doing a puzzle when you find two pieces that fit; you build around them, and the whole jigsaw hangs together better. "
― Heather Cocks , The Heir Affair (Royal We, #2)
44 " I can’t,” I argued, faint with rising panic. “Everyone will be watching me, waiting to see if I’ll crack. I’m not making that up, Dad. The headline on In Touch this week was WILL SHE CRACK? "
45 " Nick looked as surprised as if I’d just handed him my acceptance letter to Hogwarts "
46 " I was just going to tell Bex that Nicholas is the patron saint of archers, hence the massive shrubbery up there.” Clive grinned. “He’s also the patron saint of repentant thieves, but that’s harder to capture in horticultural form. "
47 " I remember once waiting for the Tube and thinking, as its oncoming headlights gleamed brighter in the tunnel, I could just jump. Not because I wanted to die, but because sometimes your mind dangles the worst-case behavior in front of you specifically so that you can be aware that you’re choosing to resist it. "
48 " Everyone knew that we knew that they knew that we knew that they knew what was at stake. "
49 " Skirts must fall no higher than the vaguely defined just above the knee, and hats must have a base of four inches or larger (I wish I’d been present when they decided three inches was too trashy to bear). "
50 " Sorry, hang on, I still don't speak metric," I interrupted."You nonconformists are so tiresome," he said. "
51 " relative weight of grief is immaterial. Being smothered a little is no different than being smothered a lot. Either way, you can’t breathe. "
52 " a costume we’d worn last Halloween to great acclaim: I would be an angelic Little White Lie, and she—winking at being the better-behaved twin in real life—would be a Dirty Little Secret. This involved snug-fitting white (for me) and black (for her) V-neck T-shirts—Lacey is all about Just Enough Cleavage, although she has more of it than I do, and so the V on mine fell almost low enough to be indecent—and silver Sharpies tied to our belt loops, so that people could jot down on our bodies their various anonymous fibs and close-held truths. "
53 " I can't truly have stopped breathing while he talked, but broken ceiling fans push air with more purpose than my lungs did. "
54 " We never deliberately froze anybody out, but it was challenging for other people to get very close. Scientists needed fifty years to split the atom. Our classmates didn't stand a chance. "
55 " Be careful what you pointedly don’t wish for, "
56 " My feelings have loads of flavors. "
57 " I remember understanding what a brutal thing it is to be the bearer of truly bad news—to break off a piece of that misery and hand it to other people, one by one, and then have to comfort them; to put their grief on your shoulders on top of all your own; to be the calm one in the face of their shock and tears. And then learning that relative weight of grief is immaterial. Being smothered a little is no different than being smothered a lot. Either way, you can’t breathe. "
58 " Bea said I didn’t owe everyone my patronage, but no one taught me the distinction between that and loyalty. "
59 " All things come to an end eventually. "
― Heather Cocks
60 " Too right. A woman can’t bloody well pick her signature drink without sampling the whole bar.” Not "