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horror-struck and ...
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I had once asked you, Mother, what had marked them for such treachery.
“They were not light-skinned,” you said.
I told him revealing his truth can be learned like swimming.
What I did not say was that I am learning as well—to
Something in his nature calls to mine with music both familiar and strange.
my heart is cultivating a pearl. For a human.
And the more I learn about Benigno, the more he te...
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Generally speaking, Río was a snob
I got the feeling Río liked the attention.
whether Atlantis exists (it used to)
if the Devil’s Triangle is as dangerous as they say (“Claro que no.”).
“What’s with the sharp spines on your fins?
Do they make you especially hard for predators to kill?”
“I see you have stripes on that garment, Barnacle.
Does that make you an especially dim-witted bass?”
“Vete de ...
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“What’s a bass?” He sighed wistfully....
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“When your family and ten years of memories get swept away in a hurricane,
¿El cuco?”
The softest hearts wear the thickest armor.
Llévame, río, hasta el mar,
How could I explain it to him?
How cruel his kindness felt sometimes?
I was a walking composite of undesi...
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every time he said I was something more, I want...
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Ella Wesner,
Looked like he’d taken Sonia shopping too.
She practically had to duck when she entered the foyer, so generous was the plumage on her new hat.
Madam Navya looked the Fraülein ...
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“You look like a condor landed on...
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“Miss Kutzler,” said Morgan sternly.
I hated the way he scolded her.
Sonia’s name in his mouth was sufficient to make all her cheerful energy ...
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No one will even know we’ve passed a glorified tadpole for a prince.”
“‘Prince of Atlantis, Preview Exhibition’?” Igor read aloud.
“That advertisement is already on every wall in Manhattan, Staten Island, Brooklyn, Queens,”
“New Yorkers can’t even piss in an alley without ...
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“But what happens when the crowds only want to see the fish-man?” Emmett demanded.
I don’t think I need to remind you what alternatives await should your popularity . . . falter.”
prisons and asylums were full of curiosities without a show to perform in.
How do you always know when it’s me?”
“Your legs have a . . . manner about them.”
thought I was being quiet.”
“Quiet, yes. As a bob ...
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You’ve a proper aquaterrarium now, not that you’ve earned it,”
“Benny says the improvements to your tank were a product of his own initiative.”
one can’t help but wonder where his motivation is coming from.”
“Benny claims you haven’t said a word to him.
I’ve deceived enough people in my life to know a second-rate liar when I see one.”
