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1 " He throws parties when a simple tantrum would’ve been sufficient. "
― Heather Cocks , The Royal We (Royal We, #1)
2 " Sometimes the only appropriate word for a person is a rude one. "
3 " A lady named Maude let me in the back,' he said. 'She's a firecracker, that one. Told me she's knitting trivets as a wild change of pace from scarves. If you're keeping score, that means changing from a rectangle all the way to a square. "
4 " Nothing like a song about a dying hooker to wash down your scones. "
5 " My dad and I once had a fight because I refused to put ketchup on my hot dogs," I said."That's possibly the most American sentence I've ever heard. "
6 " A wave of intense happiness washed over me, and I told myself to carry this moment as a talisman of a time in my life when I was both truly content and lucky enough to realize it. "
7 " There are plenty of people who like you just as you are. You should remember that when you start feeling like you're being erased. "
8 " Whatever this is… it doesn't happen twice in a lifetime. I'd rather work at this with you than settle for less with anyone else. "
9 " I hung up the phone and tapped it lightly against my chin, then wrapped myself tighter in my giant woolen cardigan and poured another glass of boxed wine — the official drink of emotionally confused women on a budget. "
10 " Well. You never have to be on with me. I promise," I said, kicking out my legs and lying down on the blanket. "You can do your crosswords and drink your heathen coffee and chill. You're not my sovereign. "
11 " He has kind of a homicidal face. Or is that just syphilis making him insane? British monarchs do love their syphilis.""A prerequisite of the job," he agreed. "
12 " 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. "
13 " Bex, please use this against me for the rest of our lives as an example of how I am about as clever as a shed. "
14 " I don’t know why it takes something monumentally destructive to remind you what you want to save. "
15 " I felt a light whacking at my legs."Sturdy calves. She'll carry a child nicely," said Marta… "Sprog her up before I die, Nicky boy. I assume you know how. "
16 " No more apologies," he says. "I don't want you to think I'm holding something over you. I'm not. This isn't a favor. This is just love. "
17 " You look amazing.""I look like a lunatic.""A gorgeous lunatic.""Don't bother me with your hormones. I'm reading. "
18 " You know, if I weren't getting married tomorrow, I would punch you," Nick says, flexing his left hand. "But Bex needs to be able to fit my ring on my finger. "
19 " During the ensuing seconds of silence, I must have burned a thousand calories just keeping my face impassive. "
20 " One condition,” Cilla sniffled through a joyful smile. “We are not naming our child after any of your grandfather’s fonts.” “I wouldn’t dream of it,” Gaz said. “The only other one that crackpot invented was called the Serif of Nottingham. "
