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This is honestly nothing like what I expected. I thought it was going to be like that "Wear Sunscreen" speech which, after some small Googling, I discover has nothing to do with Vonnegut. Anyway I like it.

Constant: I guess somebody up there likes me.
Rumfoord: What a charming concept--someone's liking you up there.

"From between Beatrice's clenched teeth came a frail, keen, sustained note so high as to be almost above the range of the human ear. The sound bore the same ghastly promise as the whistle of fins on a falling bomb."

Flying by

""They took a long moment to absorb this new reality, and then, like good Night Vale citizens, categorized it as unexplainable and set it aside forever."

The Five Ws of Journalism (according to Night Vale's Leann Hart): What? What! What!? What. Why?

"Library" (mouthed)

"You can bank wherever you like, as long as you bank at the Last Bank of Night Vale."

"This is one of those things you will wish you had never known." - Secret Police press release

"...ALL HAIL, ALL PLANT YOUR FACE INTO THE FALLOW EARTH AND WEEP IT INTO PROSPERITY." - The Mighty Glow Cloud

"Comfort was the answer to all life's problems. It didn't solve them, but it made them more distant for a bit as they quietly worsened."

"Gift cards are sentient until they expire. States in which it is illegal for gift cards to expire have created immortal sentience." From the Children's Fun Fact Science Corner

"Then you have to whisper a secret into one of the cup holders." Learning to drive stick in Night Vale is complicated.

"There is no calculator, and so they add up the figures on numerous sheets of the hotel stationery." I love these little reminders that this book was written over a decade ago, and was set further into the past.

Stuck at a wedding.

:(

It's good.

Lol Wil Wheaton.

SNL still exists. No mention of real housewives of any kind.

Laptops, email, and YouTube still exist in the year 2044. No mention of Facebook, though.

There is an Ogden and a Nash.

Heard mixed reviews about this book, but I like where it's going so far.

"'Can't make an omelette without killing a few people.'"

"There was a ghastly attempt at reassurance in his voice, more terrifying than any attempt to scare him could have been."

"But what if it's a huge river, like the Congo, which is much broader than the reach of any vine?" - Leah / "This is simple. Such a river should not be crossed." - Anatole

Brilliant

"...we Christians have our own system of marriage, and it is called Monotony." Another great Rachelism

Kingsolver demonstrates that Rachel is a numb skull by using misunderstood colloquialisms when Rachel is narrating. The best so far: "not...for all the teeth in China."

"Those who have known this kind of hunger cannot entirely love, ever again, those who have not." - Adah

"God doesn't need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves." - Leah

"Father...thought nothing of leaving [the household] in the charge of a cripple, a beauty queen, and a tomboy who approaches housework like a cat taking a bath."