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“Look up, the roof of the world is open. Let us count stars and live in their luminous gaze.”

“That is what greasers do. They lean and loiter.”

“I will go from a girl who looks like she needs charity to a girl who looks like she’s received charity.”

“Burn the clothes and reform the character….”

“In the past, they would have burned the witches and reformed the clothes.”

"While there are many things beyond our control, I've always thought the cruelest is that we mortals are not told when our last glance is just that."

“Even people with *views* have money.” 😆

“No one should have to discuss existentialism before 7am.”

“I simply wish to keep myself in London and buy books.”

Same girl, same.

“Your allowance wouldn’t cover you with a fig leaf.” 😆

Less than 20 pages in and we get a treatise on Jimmy Stewart during WWII *and* some Star Wars lore? Be still my heart.

“‘Cringe’ is what people who can’t feel things call feelings.”

“The less serious your job, the more seriously you must take it.”

“The dead are not in the past, not really, because you carry them around with you.”

“Everyone knows that those who live in garrets must find at least a portion of their sustenance from tea and baked goods.”

“She is the most promising unpromising girl of 16 I have ever met.” 😅

“Gabriel thought that he chastised himself enough without needing a higher power to do it for him.”

“As all writers must, she contemplated law school.” 😆

“Ethical non-monogamy had become the Birkenstock sandal of relationships statuses - ubiquitous but still frankly unattractive.”

“It was funny how kids wanted to work. They didn’t relax the way adults did…. Instead they took on enormous and futile projects as if they were jobs.”

“Language can be so contagious.”

“gasped for air like a hippo with sleep apnea” is a divine simile

“Aren’t you precocious.”
“Just literate.”

“In some ways, becoming a mother turned Bailey into a child all over again.”

“His heart was in the right place, but the rest of his body was always 30 minutes behind.” He

“The bus is basically the dark web for children.”

"[She] had spent a hundred French classes pretending to order in a cafe. She knew all about Croque Monsieur and Croque Madame."

yup

“One of the real perils of New England in the summer was the risk of dying of annoyance over how often people talked about corn.”

“I can’t wait to be old and unfiltered” 😅

“The human equivalent of Diet Coke served in Waterford Crystal.” 😅

"Bailey wished she liked holding newborns... it wasn't just that they were fragile. It was that they also reminded her of hairless cats."