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1 " I resisted every urge to twine my fingers around the silver necklaces at my throat. It was too early for full-on pearl clutching. "
― Kate Canterbary , Preservation (The Walshes, #7)
2 " Those forearms were straight out of Gaston from Beauty and the Beast. "
― Kate Canterbary , The Magnolia Chronicles: Adventures in Dating
3 " The waiter chose this moment to stop at our table and babble on about the backstory of each dish and its ingredients. The carrots were cruelty-free, the bacon knew its grandmother, the chef had trekked all the way to the Malabar coast to handpick the peppercorns. It was a whole big thing. "
4 " We were fucked up in the feels. "
5 " Andy laughed into her margarita glass. "You tell that story with more angst than when Frodo Baggins tells the story of the One Ring, and he lost a fucking finger in that ordeal. "
― Kate Canterbary , Restored (The Walshes, #5)
6 " The notion that grief faded with time? It was inaccurate. No, grief and loss never faded. Absence never quite abated. It lingered, and sometimes it flared, but it never faded. That was the price we paid for the memories that lived on. "
7 " Spider-Man wasn't always on the side of justice. He made some questionable choices. Also, he was a fucking creeper. "
8 " It helped that my father had finally found his true calling. We could all breathe easier knowing he was now busy managing day-to-day operations in hell. Some would say it was wrong to disrespect the dead, but I'd say his inability to respect the living was the greater crime. "
― Kate Canterbary , The Spire (The Walshes, #6)
9 " Being given shit doesn't require me to accept it," she said. "
10 " Just another day in the shambles. "
― Kate Canterbary , Thresholds (The Walshes, #8)
11 " Why the fuck was that necessary?" I yelled at the cool, empty room. "I thought we were motherfucking friends. I was restoring your foundation, not selling you off for salvage, and this is how you repay me? Stabbing me in the fucking spine? "
12 " We were affectionate like an intramural softball team. Sloppy and a little silly, and with no real purpose beyond our own amusement. "
13 " She was going to be the one beside me for decades to come, the one who opened up my wild and gave it space to roam free, the mother of my children. She was the love of my life, and she was the only one. "
14 " How'd you like it if I borrowed your almond milk? No? You wouldn't enjoy it if I decided to help myself to that creamy nut water you call milk? Then don't kidnap my sriracha, sir. "
15 " The Dragon is over 360 years old. Paul Revere and John Hancock drank there. It's the alehouse of revolutionaries, son. "
16 " I was convinced I'd met all the men metro Boston had to offer. There was the wandering millennials, the affluent assholes, the man-shaped children, the chronically misogynistic mansplainers. "
17 " I sounded perky and breezy but you can believe I rolled my eyes like a motherfucker. "
18 " I didn't actually want a dick pic. Those things were worse than opening the camera app and finding it in selfie mode. Even the most beautiful people in the world looked like triple-chinned potatoes at that angle. "
19 " She," I replied. "She. She's one of those A-N-D-Y Andys because fuck the patriarchy and their arcane gendered spelling conventions. "
20 " Pfft." She waved a hand at me. "I've seen plenty of penises, thank you. I married a man, and I raised two sons. For years, I couldn't go a day without seeing at least two penises. Years, Magnolia. "
