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Candy Apple Kisses

by Amy Clipston (Goodreads Author)

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Oct 24, 2026 04:25AM

“How did you, like, go on?” He looks down at her and swallows hard. “I mean, he was here one day and gone the next. How do you recover from something like that?” Tova hesitates. “You don’t recover. Not all the way. But you do move on. You have to.”
― Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

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“But keeping busy is good. Cleaning is always good. It’s something to do.”
― Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

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“We men fear death. Death! Gruesome and terrible! Inevitable and senseless! We dance towards her as we might a beautiful woman and Death waltzes back towards us, beckoning, always beckoning. Once the veil is pierced, we never return.”
― Dana Schwartz, Anatomy: A Love Story

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“Smart cookie. I am smart, but I am not a snack object dispensed from a packaged food machine. What a preposterous thing to say.”
― Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

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“Humans are the only species who subvert truth for their own entertainment. They call them jokes. Sometimes puns.”
― Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

tags: alien-perspective, animal-pov, humanity, humans, humor, jokes

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