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What they did was sell invisible things. And after they’d sold what they had, they still had it. They sold what everyone needed but often didn’t want. They sold the key to the universe to people who didn’t even know it was locked.
‘I can see we’re going to get along like a house on fire,’ said Miss Tick. ‘There may be no survivors.’
The skylarks stopped singing and, while she hadn’t really noticed their song, their silence was a shock. Nothing’s louder than the end of a song that’s always been there.
That’s the trouble with a brain: it thinks more than you sometimes want it to.
‘Them as can do, has to do for them as can’t. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices.’
Tiffany’s Second Thoughts said: Hang on, was that a First Thought? And Tiffany thought: No, that was a Third Thought. I’m thinking about how I think about what I’m thinking. At least, I think so. Her Second Thoughts said: Let’s all calm down, please, because this is quite a small head.
People who say things like ‘may all your dreams come true’ should try living in one for five minutes.
it was better to belong where you don’t belong than not to belong where you used to belong, remembering when you used to belong
Not-Really-Raspberry Red, Fake-Lemon Yellow, Curiously-Chemical Orange, Some-Kind-of-Acidy Green and Who-Knows-What Blue.
You could spend a day looking at a flower to see how wonderful it is, and that wouldn’t get the milking done. No wonder we dream our way through our lives. To be awake, and see it all as it really is … no one could stand that for long.
First you get the test, and then afterwards you spend years findin’ out how you passed it.
