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“This is an IMAGINARY STORY...aren't they all?”
― Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?
― Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?
“All these years there had been a Tupperware container of bad language in her head, and now she opened it and all those crisp, crunchy words were fresh and lovely, ready to be used.”
― The Husband's Secret
― The Husband's Secret
“He realised at once that a mistake had been made: he had been sent the wrong hangover. Somewhere in northern Rhodesia there was a bull elephant who had got drunk on fermented marula fruit, rampaged through a nearby village, and fallen asleep in a ditch, and was now pleasantly surprised to find itself greeting the day with only the mild headache that follows a couple of bottles of good red wine… Perhaps if he got in touch with the relevant authorities he could get this unfortunate little mix-up corrected, but he would have to do so without moving his head or opening his eyes. Otherwise he would die from the pain.”
― The Teleportation Accident
― The Teleportation Accident
“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
― Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
“To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.”
― Fangirl
― Fangirl
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