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21 " Bill blinked tears from his eyes, then fastened his gaze on me. “Bitch,” he snarled—why they never think of anything cleverer I’ll never know. "
― Elizabeth Bear , Karen Memory (Karen Memory, #1)
22 " Marshal Reeves, watching me, snorted. “Live and learn, child,” he said. “Everybody’s worthy of respect. "
23 " You ever hear somebody blithely say something so amazingly plastered over with bullshit it just makes your eyes bug? "
24 " On récolte ce que l’on sème. That "
25 " Some call it the Cherry Hotel. But most just say it’s Madame Damnable’s Sewing Circle and have done. So I guess that makes me a seamstress, just like Beatrice and Miss Francina and Pollywog and Effie and all the other girls. I "
26 " So it’s a good thing Connie sent me with a list, because otherwise I might wind up bewildered and wandering the aisles until I wasted away to a haint. "
27 " I wished I could offer her tea. You don’t think about it, but all those little fusses we make over company have their purposes. They give us something to do with our hands and our anxiousness until everybody settles in and starts having fun. "
28 " Anchorage, which is about the stupidest thing you ever could get to naming a harbor. I mean, why not just call it Harbor, like it was the only one ever? "
29 " Some would say a whore don’t have no expectation of Heaven. I’d say, if she gives value for cash, she’s got a better shot at God’s blessing than your average banker. Jesus loved Mary Magdalene. He kicked over tables when He met a moneylender. "
30 " I should of been chewing on my words some, so everybody else would have had a better chance of swallowing them. "
31 " Butter wouldn't have melted my smile, I swear. "
32 " Amazing what people can fail to see when it’s a man doing it to a woman, even a respectable-looking woman. "
33 " went up to the dressing room and got kitted, all crinolines and kilted skirts and my tits about falling out the top of my daffodil taffeta dress whenever I grabbed a breath. "