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1 " taciturn. "
― Penny Reid , The Neanderthal Box Set (Knitting in the City, #1-1.5)
2 " I saw Dan lift his eyebrows then look to the ceiling and sigh. I had come to understand that, for Dan, this was his silent way of communicating that he was dumbfounded. Some people say, “I can’t—I can’t even….” Some people say, “Bitch, you crazy.” Some people say, “I have no words.” Dan just glances "
3 " I know that life, in general, terrifies you; I know that you are frequently oblivious to the obvious, and I know that you are completely irrational at times. "
4 " but applying logic to love is like buttering a pig before you slaughter it. "
5 " I’ve experienced these singularities before: these surreal moments where some combination of the lighting in the room, the situation, the smell, the people I’m with, and the clothes I’m wearing make me feel like I’m in a movie. "
6 " sensory processing disorder; "
7 " My upstairs brain and my downstairs brain engaged in a game of risk, and it was downstairs’s turn to roll the dice. "
8 " The truth was that I needed time to figure this out. I was very attached to Quinn, but I worried that it was a bit premature. Forming an attachment to someone typically took me years. I’d known him less than six weeks, and already I felt more for him and thought more about him than I’d ever felt for Jon. "
9 " She issued me a meaningful glare that told me unequivocally: You owe me one. "
10 " I’d gone pee— "
11 " As Sandra would say, all I felt was Zen. But not Quinn. Quinn was not Zen. He was the opposite of Zen. I’d made a mental note to look up what the opposite of the word Zen was, thinking it should be something like “zook” or “z-oh-shit!” Or maybe it was “zinn. "
12 " I’ve come to rely on my knitting group to be my compass in all things confusing and difficult to comprehend; this usually means relationships and interactions with other humans…er, people. My ladies have helped me navigate everything from precarious office politics to dealings with my ex’s mother. "
13 " craptacularly idiotic "
14 " coxswained "
15 " Caped Publishing Made in the United States of America "
16 " Do you want a margarita? I’m making them with Limoncello and Patron. "
17 " orange juice and tequila. "
18 " I tilted my head to the side, wanting to tease him rather than dwell on how high, on a scale from one to ten, I would rank on the vapid meter. "
19 " lodestone. "
20 " I had Quinn’s secretary, Betty, make the arrangements "
