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“It was a beautiful lie that they had all been telling themselvesthat you could have magic without monsters.”
“It was a beautiful lie that they had all been telling themselves—that you could have magic without monsters.”
“He's gone now. He did something terrible, but...he did good things, too. And he kept us well. And it's all right if you are sad.”
“Someone who thinks of possessing a fountain made of a winged baby with water shooting out of its mouth must not have too many troubles.”
“They said words they did not mean, and their conversations seemed to follow all kinds of rulesrules that no one has ever explained to Oscar.”
“At each step there is a small moment of transformation that cannot be overlooked or rushed. And these moments should not be, because they are beautiful.”
“Oscar did not know what he was supposed to be feeling right now, what all the adults behind him would be expecting him to feel. He did not even know what he was, in fact, feeling. Except, whatever ...”
“This was not [him]. It was a thing, with all the [him]-ness gone from it. Death takes the person and leaves his shell behind, like a hollowed-out tree.”
“Something rose in Oscar's chest, like a flower blossoming all at once. It grew until it filled him and threatened to spill over everywhere. The words [he] spoke touched a longing so deep Oscar hadn...”
“Oscar leaned in, eyes wide. 'He's keeping me,' he whispered to the kitten.Pebble chirped. Oscar's eyes flicked to the books underneath his bed. They called out to him: Misfit. Orphan. Idiot.Oscar c...”
“Hugging himself, Oscar leaned against the pantry wall. For two days all he had wanted was for Caleb to come back, and now he was back and Oscar had made a mess of things: he had angered half the cu...”
“The words kept coming and he could not stop them, not while Callie was standing there so indecipherably, and so he was going to keep talking until he used up all the words there were and then no on...”
“He could still escapethe fear was in front of him, and all he had to do was wrench free and run in the other direction. But he kept walking forward, straight into its embrace.”
“There are ways to do things, ways to act with people, and I do not understand them. I cannot understand what people mean when they talk. I do not do things right. I do not feel things right. I do n...”
“He could still escape—the fear was in front of him, and all he had to do was wrench free and run in the other direction. But he kept walking forward, straight into its embrace.”
