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1 " How can this be real?” I whispered. “I mean you... you... where you come from. Your world. It is so beyond everything I've ever known. And you would... you would take me to the Pumpkin Ball?”“Try and stop me. "
― Serra Elinsen , Awoken
2 " There was something very fishy about Riley Bay. "
3 " Just kill me. My life is nothing without you. Drive me mad. Let me be your sustenance. Eat my soul. You’re… you’re tearing me apart! "
― Serra Elinsen
4 " He looked at me the way you’d look at a poodle that suddenly started reciting Hamlet. "
5 " Riley Bay wasn’t human.But if he wasn’t human, then what was he? An alien, sent to Earth to learn about humanity in preparation for an invasion? Riley was certainly weird enough to be an alien, but I didn’t see why the mother ship would send him to Portsmouth, Rhode Island, in the guise of a high schooler. "
6 " I... I cannot take you to the Pumpkin Ball. "
7 " So I wasn’t hallucinating; the boy was really there. He looked exactly the same as he had in my dreams, except… dry, and wearing FUBU. "
8 " Fhtagn Nor’Farm Cthulhu Gr’der’si di ia! Ph’nglui ya mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn! "
9 " The song came back suddenly, longer and more triumphant! It was the sweetest sound I’d ever heard. The voice of an angel. “SGN’WAHL! SHA’SHOGG! THROD! CTHULHU’AI!” The ground shook again. I was so lost in that most beautiful of songs that once again I fell to the stone. I peered up from the ground… and marveled. "
10 " Ms. Epistola is a grown woman. She should dress however she wants,” Vik shot back. "
11 " That is not dead which can eternal lie, yet with strange aeons even death may die. But love will never die. . . "
12 " Word,” said Jamal. “But you can jive on up to the taco hut on the boardwalk if you hungry, dig? "
13 " After all, it’s not every day a girl gets her very own stalker. "
14 " Snow White was I only in skin, and not in any of the other important descriptors. "
15 " I didn’t know a mouth could open that far. His tongue lolled out, his lips curled back and his eyes bulged as if they’d come right out of their sockets, his face contorting in a gruesome display of excruciating agony. A moment later, a ragged, earsplitting howl escaped his throat and tore icicles up my spine. His hands shot up to clamp against his own ears and he sank straight to the bottom of the pool. "
16 " Perhaps some of your classmates might benefit eef you offered your services as tutor, non?” I heard some of the girls in class giggling and repeating the word “services. "
17 " Zis iz ze most important class you shall all take!” he proclaimed in his outrageous accent as we all zombie-shuffled into the hall once again. "
18 " Perhaps the prophecy is true, after all, "
19 " We were mortals in the presence of a goddess. How could anyone ever be interested in someone like me with women like her in the world? "
20 " The first thing that came into my mind when I saw her lounging at the front of the class was the look in her catlike hazel eyes. It was the half-lidded, tight-smirked look of a woman scorned. Her glossy auburn hair was coiled in an artful French twist. Under her half-slouched lab coat, her dress was glittery black, bare-shouldered and shone in the fluorescent light like it was covered in beetles. The moment I beheld her, I knew: whoever this woman was, she was utterly and completely heartless "
