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"For one thing, envy is unhealthy, so work on that."

Mathew had always thought that James was lucky to have Lucie. He had always wanted a little sister.

Not that he wanted Lucie to be his sister.

"You may be a waist of space in a waistcoat," he told Mathew Fairchild, "but at least your waistcoat is fantastic."

That is some BIG Magnus energy and I FULLY approve! XD

"But I don't wear makeup."

"Why not?"

Maybe Eleanor should say that she wasn't allowed to. That would sound nicer than, Because makeup is a lie."

"Eleanor was right: She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something."

"He'd served Eleanor clam chowder once in a high ball glass."

"He pulled up in an old Karmann Ghia convertiable. It looked like the car James Dean died in. Her dad's arm was hanging over the door, holding a cigarette. "Eleanor!"

"Something?" Cal said, slamming his spoon into his pudding. "Like you being completely lame---is that what came up? Because that comes up a lot lately."

"He made her feel like more than the sum of her parts."

"That night, Park made a tape with the Joy Division song on it, over and over again. He emptied all his handheld video games and Josh's remote control cars, and called his grandma to tell her that all he wanted for his birthday in November was AA batteries."

"When her alarm went off the next morning, Eleanor couldn't remember having fallen to sleep. She couldn't remember when the crying had stopped.

A horrible thought came to her, and she got up, stumbling over the kids and the blankets. She opened the bedroom door and smelled bacon.

Which meant that her mother was alive."