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“Smoky knickers. Always said you were hot stuff,” he said. I rolled my eyes and shook my head at the same time. It made me so dizzy that I almost fell over. Men.”
“O beautiful, to make escapeAnd leave this world behind.Had I to stay another dayI'd lose my fucking mind!”
“Please let's change subject, as despite the alliteration, I don't think Politics and Puddings go together.”
“I had this teacher who kept telling me that if I was ever in a fair fight, someone had made a mistake,” she said”
“Hungry party-goers?! Diabolical!”
“He wasn’t a pretty boy, his nose was crooked and his grin lopsided, but he had that square-jawed, salt-of-the-earth handsome look that made a girl think of loose-hipped cowboys and demanding Scotti...”
“The night before, a whole day could have shape and design. But when it was upon you, it could vanish tragically to air.”
“Ah don't hate the English. They're just wankers. We are colonised by wankers. We can't even pick a decent, vibrant, healthy culture to be colonised by. No. We're ruled by effete arseholes. What doe...”
“The store was empty, without a single customer or employee. It appeared in the Internet age, pianos, like physical books, were fast becoming culturally extinct. They’d probably stay that way unless...”
“Maybe that’s why God made childbirth so painful, so that when your life is wrecked by children you know it could be worse.”
“If we followed our feelings all the time we´d be like cats chasin´ their tails.”
“He cleared his throat. “You need to pick a safe word.”“What on earth is a safe word?”He smothered a sigh. This was proving to be more work than he thought it’d be. “It’s a word you use when you wan...”
“Or that time she made a snowman in Britt-Marie and Kent’s garden right under their balcony and dressed it up in grown-up clothes so it looked as if a person had fallen from the roof.”
“There are no bees on the moon”
“You’ll slip up, just like everyone else who tries to mess with the British Empire. They all get it wrong somehow – forget some detail, make some tiny error, invade Russia – and then it’s all downhi...”
“Remember you’re all representing your country, and you ought to behave as the Empire does.’ ‘So we can kill and loot at will, steal their goods and claim the planet as our own?’ Suruk said.”
“Nina was about to snap that she didn't appreciate the sarcasm when she saw the expression on his face. He looked like someone had just given him a tuba full of puppies.”
“I’d heard street food was a big thing here in Mexico but I didn’t think it meant the creatures that lived on the street.”
“We need our goats!” I yelled.I waded through the crowd until I reached our chariot. I grabbed Otis’s face and pressed my forehead against his.“Testing,” I whispered. “Is this goat on? Thor, can you...”
“Mozart,” Julie says in a bitter chuckle, staring at the speaker. “It’s supposed to be the pinnacle of art, right? This transcendent human achievement? And we use it for background noise in bathroom...”
