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Jumping Off the Planet (Dingilliad, #1) QUOTES

Jumping Off the Planet (Dingilliad, #1) QUOTES

1 " Mom says that the music is my way of trying to get close to Dad. But she’s wrong. The music isn’t my way of getting close to Dad or anyone. It’s my way of getting away from both of them and going somewhere else. Someplace where things always resolve in the final eight bars. "

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2 " It was all supposed to be reassuring-but it wasn’t. Not really. "

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3 " Well, it’s about you and Mom. Chigger and I were talking-and well, I mean-you are kidnapping us, aren’t you, Dad? "

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4 " I thought for a moment Dad was finally going to say something that would make a difference. But maybe not, because he just let Weird change the subject without even noticing how unfinished I still felt. "

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5 " I’m trying to give you two things here, Douglas: the trip I’ve always promised you, and the chance you never had before on how you want your life to turn out. "

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6 " You said something once, Charles, that has stayed in my head like a ball bearing bouncing around the inside of an empty steel drum. You said that it was your family too, and nobody ever asked you what you wanted. Well, this is me asking you. All of you. "

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7 " Let him be, Dad,” Weird said. “It’s not your fault if Chigger wants to be a sociopath. You can blame it on Mom. "

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