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141 " Is it a magical whiteboard?” asked Turner sourly. Dawes cast him a baleful look. “All whiteboards are magical. "
― Leigh Bardugo , Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)
142 " a purebred golden retriever—dopey, glossy, and expensive. "
143 " If you want to get Child Protective Services called fast, just start talking about ghost dick. "
144 " His relief gusted through the room like a warm front - the kind that New Englanders welcome, and that Angelinos know means wildfires. "
145 " Alex always took two sandwiches with her for the day and a stack of chocolate chip cookies wrapped in a napkin. "
146 " alone in the dark. "
147 " By the time Alex managed to get the blood out of her good wool coat, it was too warm to wear it. "
148 " If you want to live. And wasn't that the worst of it? She did. She did want to live and always had. "
149 " Everything changes; nothing perishes. "
150 " Somehow the men and women of this city knew: Their streets were home to other gods. "
151 " I'm pretty sure when my mother was talking about the devil, she had you in mind. "
152 " She’d let the battery run down on her phone, ignored her classes, watched the branches sprout leaves at the knuckles like a woman trying on rings. "
153 " New Haven had an extremely high concentration of sites where magic seemed to catch and build, like cotton candy on a spool. "