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mayor of Chicago, elected on a campaign of “Not as corrupt as the other guy, probably,” which had been the motto of Chicago politics for a few years running.
One side had celebrated withdrawing troops from other countries but protested pulling out of international peacekeeping organizations. The other side had cheered the closing of borders but resisted the decreased military presence abroad.
the item of clothing she most dreaded in the world: shapewear.
You aren’t squishy in the middle—” “Technically everyone is squishy in the middle—”
Many fine generals and responsible, emotionally distant fathers have also been un-squishy.
he didn’t see her; he saw who she could be with a few adjustments, and all she wanted was to stay busted and be left alone.
The guy was— ESTHER PARK: A couple bananas short of a bunch. INES MEJIA: Or a couple bananas in excess of a bunch.
Magic was not a weapon or even an amoral source of energy—it was an infection. Wherever it was, people died, places turned rotten, and the order of things was disrupted, sometimes irreparably.
She put a finger up to her lips and blew a bubble. It tickled the underside of her fingertip, which meant she was upright—bubbles always moved up, toward the surface.
And don’t let your housecat fool you into thinking that animals are nothing more than fuzzy, whiskered creatures who wish us no ill. Nature is bloody, and as a whole, it favors strength over compassion.
That was how it always was—she faded away for people once she had served her purpose.
Are you claiming to be better than millions of years of evolution?” “I’m the pinnacle,” Sloane said, solemn. “Congratulations on meeting me.”
“Please, for the love of God, don’t be one of those villains who waxes poetic about existentialist nonsense,
Inside it was a small stack of clothes—all dark colors, of course, because supposedly evil sorcerers who commanded armies of undead couldn’t wander around in bright orange, after all.
“I don’t have many rules to live by,” Sloane said, “but ‘When a murderous psychopath tells you to do something, don’t do it’ is absolutely one of them.”
