All the Birds in the Sky
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Read between August 24 - August 30, 2018
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made nonsense jokes,
Tony
I’m looking forward to these!
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With both girls, their parents had hoped for a boy and picked out a name in advance.
Tony
Omg! We were just talking about what the names of my teammates would be if they were the opposite gender!
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(He had already figured out a great universal truth, that people never asked for documentation of anything, as long as you asked them for documentation first.)
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You celebrated the small victories, and you dreamed of the big ones to come.
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Saarinian Program.)
Tony
This was never really explained
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Theodolphus had lost his prey. This was the first time he had ever been inside a mall, and he was finding the environment overwhelming
Tony
What?
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There was nothing for it but to eat a large chocolate brownie sundae.
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Theodolphus began to sob, without making any sound. He wept like a silent jungle cat.
Tony
LOL what!?
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the ice cream had indeed been poisoned—
Tony
What the hell!
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FoodPile bag,
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we spent a lot of money to send you to a school with uniforms and discipline and a curriculum that creates winners,”
Tony
Winnerssssss
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If you just want to be garbage, just let us know, and you can go back to the woods. Just never come back to this house. You can go live in the woods forever. We could save a large sum of money.”
Tony
This is normal
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Roberta put Tabasco and Sriracha chili oil on everything, no matter what.
Tony
Roberta is a fuckwad.
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Wait a second. Why was her forehead up against the ceiling? Patricia could look down and see her own body, flopping around a bit. She was flying! She had left her body!
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ASTRAL PROJECTION!!!
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She was astral-projecting.
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“Control,” the Tree said, “is an illusion.”
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the previous school counselor got run over by a meat truck.
Tony
I hate it when that happens.
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Berkley was a fluffy black kitten with a huge white stripe on his stomach and a white smudge across his scowly face.
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Poor Berkeley, we never found out what happened to them!
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girltrash
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“A society that has to burn witches to hold itself together is a society that has already failed, and just doesn’t know it yet.”
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solipsism
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suet
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Aggrandizement
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sylph,
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maudlin drunk.”
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“You know … no matter what you do, people are going to expect you to be someone you’re not. But if you’re clever and lucky and work your butt off, then you get to be surrounded by people who expect you to be the person you wish you were.”
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hectored
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“Boredom is the mind’s scar tissue.”
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But you have not yet begun to experience the pain of being a witch. The mistakes. All the regrets. The only thing that will make such power bearable is to remember how small you are.”
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stentorian
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hairy eyeball.
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jug ears.
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ley lines.
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“I think that the most basic thing of ethics is being aware of how your actions affect others, and having an awareness of what they want and how they feel. And that’s always going to depend on who you’re dealing with.”
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Wollongong
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depilated
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Bhagavad Gita.
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sloughed
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twee.
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The reason the Uncanny Valley exists is because humans created it to put other people into. It’s how we justify killing each other.”
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bilious
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banyans,