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“My parents taught me not to sling around words like ‘insane’ as if they were insults, so fuck you very much, lady.
“Where you go, I go. That’s the rule. The only reason I let you walk away before was because I’d just been shot for the first time. I think I was allowed a little lapse in judgment.”
“When you have a choice between Godzilla and Cthulhu, you take Godzilla every time. At least the King of Monsters isn’t actively out to destroy humanity.
Magic is nice, but napalm is reliable.
“You people,” she said. Her voice was sad, and fond. “If I hadn’t died before I met you, I’d expect you to be the death of me.”
Cheerleading and roller derby have this much in common: image and attitude are sometimes everything. You’re going to eat grass and track no matter how good you are.
I advanced on those people like Dany emerging from the fire, like Jean stepping out of the Phoenix Force, like . . . Well, like me. Antimony Price. The girl who burns and does not die.
“How dare you? Don’t you know who I am?” “Yeah,” I said. “You’re the guy whose ass I’m about to kick.”
“Wake up and tell your hair not to bite me, before the roller coaster crushes us both.”
I will diminish and go into the west, but not before I kick your ass.”
the fūri is a monkey—specifically, a human—that takes on the attributes of another monkey—specifically, some form of spider monkey.