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“Hello!” Violet cried. “Hello!” Klaus yelled. “Shalom!” Sunny shrieked.
Stop waiting! Stop war! Stop injustice! Stop bothering me!
There’s not a day I don’t think of her! Aye! Except some days when it slips my mind!”
“Aye, and then what’s-his-name, Jacques’s brother,
We must stop occasionally for a brief snack!
We don’t have time for you two to do all that flirting, either!” “We’re not flirting!” Fiona said. “We’re having a conversation.” “It looked like flirting to me,”
Dessert is the most important meal of the day! Aye! In my opinion! Even though it’s not really a meal! Aye!”
“Yomhuledet,”
Although lately it has become more and more difficult to attend dinner parties without the evening ending in gunfire or tapioca,
Aye! If you find me the sugar bowl, I’ll allow you to marry Fiona!”
Perhaps we’ll find your long-lost brother, Fiona! He’s much older, of course, and he’s been missing for years, but if Klaus can locate the sugar bowl he could probably find him! Aye! He’s a charming man, so you’d probably fall in love with him, Violet, and then we could have a double wedding!
“Philosophers live at the tops of mountains or in ivory towers, not underneath the sea.”
It is often difficult to admit that someone you love is not perfect, or to consider aspects of a person that are less than admirable.
A short woman might be difficult to see on a crowded city street, particularly if she has disguised herself as a mailbox, and people keep putting letters in her mouth.
“You’re a marshmallow, Carmelita,”
“People aren’t either wicked or noble,” the hook-handed man said. “They’re like chef’s salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.”
M is for ‘gorgeous’!
“Near you,”
“I’m going to do a special tap-dancing ballerina fairy princess veterinarian dance recital,” Carmelita bragged, “on the graves of all those volunteers!”
“I also find this amusing!”
Ha ha hamantaschen!
“We didn’t lose our family,” Violet said. “Only our parents.”
“I can set a course,” Violet said, “and Klaus can read the tidal charts.” “Serve cake,” Sunny said.
“On three,” Sunny said, which meant something like, “After I say one and two.”
“Or maybe Quigley just wanted to write my name.”
