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21 " When I’m a woman, I eat Pop-Tarts and vindaloo. When I’m a big black bird, I eat eyeballs and spleens. It’s all part of the glorious contradiction that is me. "
― Seanan McGuire , A Red-Rose Chain (October Daye, #9)
22 " Most of the neighbors hated us in an offhand sort of manner, since we had twice the space they did, plus a parking area and a small yard—all things virtually unheard of in modern-day San Francisco. I was sure they’d change their minds if they knew how much I’d bled to earn that house. Or maybe not. Reserved parking is hard to come by in this city. "
23 " Don’t underestimate him just because he’s a fool, "
24 " I have a talent for complicating situations,” I said. "
25 " I hate that you make me be a monster for you, "
26 " The look she leveled on him was pure aunt. "
27 " Sometimes the high ground is reserved for the people who think honor is more important than living. "
28 " Sadly, as I had come to learn, sometimes being a pincushion is my purpose in life. "
29 " Huh,” I said a moment later. “It’s bigger on the inside. "
30 " Your entire life has been a succession of things you are not equipped for. And while you may have, as you so charmingly say, screwed some of them up, you have, in the main, come through spectacularly well. "
31 " Total freedom was terrifying. Boundaries made it controllable, and hence enjoyable again. "
32 " When the time comes for my current mortal face to end- and it will come, much as I might wish this time could last forever- I will understand the man I must manufacture as my next self all the better because of the children, and their comics. And besides, the X-Men offer many powerful life lessons to which even the eldest among us should attend. "
33 " employee, and I love her dearly, but I’d be lucky if she noticed an armed robbery right now. We’re fine. Now come on. "
34 " Don’t you always have a problem? The day you don’t have a problem, you’ll probably decide that that’s a problem, and go looking for one.” “I can’t say you’re wrong, but this is a real problem. "
35 " The day you don't have a problem, you'll probably decide that that's a problem, and go looking for one. "
36 " I won't pretend the life I lived before you was somehow the lesser for your absence. There was no hole waiting for you to come along and fill it. I loved often, if not always well. I fought, I fled, I ruled my people, and I thought myself content. But since you have returned to us-since the waters of the Tea Gardens gave you up, and gave you back to me-not a day has passed without my considering the fragility of your smile, or the color of your eyes. You insinuated yourself into my heart like a worm into an apple, and I am consumed by you. "
37 " sometimes ripping away the bandages was what allowed the soul to finally heal. "
38 " She chuckled, low and dark, like bones rolling on the bottom of the sea. “Don’t you always have a problem? The day you don’t "
39 " I blinked at a display of purses made from superhero-themed fabric. I hadn’t realized there were so many different ways to wear a cape, or so many different styles of bustier that people would consider appropriate to wear into combat. "
40 " The problem with arrogant assholes is that all too often, they’ll take silence as agreement. "