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1 " I blame Doctor Who. Mr Spock. The Scooby Gang: both the ones in the Mystery Machine and the ones with the stakes. I've spent my life with stories of people who don't walk away, who go back for their friends, who make that last stand. I've been brainwashed by Samwise Gamgee. "
― Andrea K. Höst , Stray (Touchstone, #1)
2 " I'm out of tissues for toilet paper too. History notes just aren't....up to scratch "
3 " I walked into adventure and adventure has given me blisters. "
4 " [...] I'm going to have to be systematic about experimental eating so I know exactly what fatally poisons me. "
5 " I'm an above average student, but I'm not brilliant at anything. Partly because I'd rather read than study. "
6 " How do you tell what's poisonous? Now that would have been a useful thing to learn at school. "
7 " I'm the kind of person who watches TV while checking FaceBook, and reads whether I'm having breakfast, or on the bus, or in the loo. "
8 " Did Tom Hanks talk to the volleyball because he'd gone mad, or to stop himself going mad? "
9 " there's three bad things about dying: pain and other unpleasantries, the way your friends and relatives feel after, and the fact that you don't get to find out what happens next. "
10 " (...) time spent with impossible-to-achieve guys is time well spent because it gives you a chance to find reasons not to like them. "
11 " A whole new world. "
12 " the failure of my history classes to tell me what pre-industrial women used for their periods, "
13 " Cassandra means 'she who entangles men', which has got to be the suckiest name meaning ever, and that's not even getting into the whole cursed by Apollo and then everyone thinks you're mad and you know everything's going to end up a mess and can't do anything about it part. "
14 " External windows like the one I had are really rare and not even very popular because people feel exposed and unsafe. "
15 " I'm supposed to have gone to bed. "
