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81 " I wonder if the prayers of angel-bloods count more than regular people's. "
― Cynthia Hand , Unearthly (Unearthly, #1)
82 " See, that's what I like about you, Carrots You're not fussy. "
83 " Well he should get over himself. He tried to get me burned at the stake in Brit History yesterday. Here I am minding my own business like a good little girl, and out of the blue Tucker raises his hand and accuses me of being a witch" "sounds like something Tucker would do" admits wendy."Everybody had to vote on it. I barely escaped with my nuns life. Obviously I'll have to return the favour. "
84 " You like me, Clara, he says. "I know you do. "
85 " Look closer. The river's its own world of fast and slow, deep and shallow, bright and shadowed. If you look at it like that, like a landscape where the fish live, it'll be easier to catch one. "
86 " I can’t believe you’re old enough to have your purpose,” Mom says with a sigh. “Makes me feel old.”“You are old. "
87 " Clara," he says, my name sounding different somehow when it passes through his lips. "I'll miss you. "
88 " What do you see in a guy like Christian Prescott?" he asks. "I don't know," I say wearily. "Anything else you want?" His dimple appears. "Nope," he says. "
89 " We've got lots of time to fall in love. "
90 " A string of very un-angelic curse words come to mind. "
91 " Go with polar bears, I say to myself. Polar bears at the North Pole. Baby polar bears scooting along after their mothers in the snow. Polar bears drinking Coca-Cola. "
92 " Hot is really not an adequate enough word for this guy. He is crazy beautiful. And it’s more than his looks—the intentionally messy waves of his dark hair; the strong eyebrows that make his expression a bit serious, even when he smiles; his eyes, which I notice can look emerald in one light and hazel in another; the sweetly sculpted angles of his face; the curve of his full lips. "
93 " I mean, what good is a women's lib if we can't use it to ask guys to dances? "
94 " You don’t know what you can do. You won’t know until you try. "
95 " …sitting on the sidewalk outside of his workplace like some creepy stalker ex-girlfriend, waiting for him to come out so I can ambush him with love. "
96 " IF SCIENCE TEACHES ANYTHING, IT TEACHES US TO ACCEPT OUR FAILURES, AS WELL AS OUR SUCCESSES, WITH QUIET DIGNITY AND GRACE. "
97 " Yes. But mostly I’m a normal girl.” I know he won’t believe that. I wonder if he’ll ever treat me like a normal girl again. That’s part of what I love about being with Tucker.He makes me feel normal, not in a plain Jane, nondescript way, but like I’m enough, just being me, without all the angel stuff. I almost start to cry thinking I’m going to lose that. "
98 " That wasn’t Christian,” she says.“Brilliant observation, Mother.”“What happened?”“He’s in love with another girl,” I say, and pull the silver laurel out of my hair. "
99 " We could go back to the way things were before, him accusing me of stuff and me pretending like I don’t have a clue what he’s talking about.Right.I’m not that good a liar, even when I’m lying to myself. "
100 " I’m not an angel. I don’t live in heaven or play a golden harp or have heart-to-heart conversations with the Almighty. "