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Does Agatha know we’re coming?” “It’ll be a surprise!” Penny says. “Surprise!” Baz singsongs. “It’s your ex-boyfriend and his boyfriend and that girl you never liked very much!”
Was Simon supposed to see it coming? He doesn’t see anything coming! He’s taken aback by Tuesdays!
But it was a mistake thinking of that as an end. There is no end. Bad things happen, and then they stop, but they keep on wreaking havoc inside of people.
I’ve told her to text me like a normal person. (I texted her to tell her.) “But you don’t reply to my texts!” she replied. “Yes, but at least I read them, Penny. When you leave a voicemail, I just recoil in horror.”
There’s a woman standing in line near us, giving us her most aggrieved “don’t be gay” face, but I don’t care
It’s sitting in economy that’s making us gay. Not that she will get mad at us necessarily.… You just never know when someone’s going to make you feel bad about what you are.
If you can’t trust people with nose rings to be open-minded, who’s left?
(Fucking men, always trying to trap you alone.)
Simon Snow, it hurts to look at you when you’re this happy. And it hurts to look at you when you’re depressed. There’s no safe time for me to see you, nothing about you that doesn’t tear my heart from my chest and leave it breakable outside my body.
“Please don’t choke to death, Bunce. Imagine the humiliation of dying at The Cheesecake Factory.”
“I know you don’t eat beef,” I say, “but this burger tastes like America.”
He says you have a ‘singular energy.’” “Ginger, that just means ‘blond.’”
Why would you go through the desert on a horse with no name? Why wouldn’t you name the fucking horse at some point?
I’m encouraged that most Americans seem to realize this part of the country is blighted and have settled elsewhere.
(Silverado, Tahoe, Tundra. Everyone gets it, America, you’re very American.)
(We literally have three “pickup trucks” in all of England, but here they’re everywhere. What is it that Americans have to pick up that the rest of the world doesn’t?)
Sometimes Simon kisses me like it’s the end of the world, and I worry he might believe that it is.
He adjusts his cuffs again. (What is even the point of cuffs that need constant adjusting?)
We keep magic secret for a reason. Because Normals would grind us into sausage if they thought they could extract our magic that way. Normals have annihilated elephants and rhinoceroses because you believe they’re magic. They’re not, by the way. They’re just going extinct.”
I don’t understand this part of America. The heat, the sand, the small towns. Why would you live somewhere that seemed to be doing its best to tell you to go away?
I had this idea about America.… That I’d find myself here. That’s why people get in a convertible and hit the road without a map. That’s the promise. That you’ll finally see yourself when you don’t recognize the scenery.
