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socktagon?”
It was amazing, really, how well disappointment and lack of surprise complemented each other; they were like the Olsen Twins of emotion.
No way of knowing, and nothing to do but wait.
now dressed in a short skirt and a spectacularly cozy sweater—
from hell to breakfast.
America’s two great specialties are demagogues and rock and roll, and we’ve all heard plenty of both in our time.
pitch a little woo
Big Jim had no sense of being watched—or rather, he had a sense of being watched by everybody, which comes to the same.
wheedler.
“Deserved is the wrong word. I thought I’d bought and paid for it, which isn’t the same thing at all. My life changed after that. I kept on getting good grades, but I stopped raising my hand so much. I never quit grade-grinding, but I stopped grade-grubbing.
Hoard a penny and lose a dollar.
Never give a good politician time to pray.”
punished for her innocent arrogance,
the world is a huge dead locomotive with an engine but no headlight.
in the fullness of time,
Sorrow for a wrong was better than nothing, Barbie supposed, but no amount of after-the-fact sorrow could ever atone for joy taken in destruction,
