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“Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility.”
“Earth girls aren’t easy.”
“Humans and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension. With aliens, that has to go double.”
“Why should I mind?” She drummed her fingertips against his knee. “Because you got asked to play baseball, while I got a lecture on circumspection, Jezebels, and leading men into sin?” “Did you real...”
“I don’t really believe in aliens. I like to think of them as planet challenged.”
“He is the biggest asshole on the planet,” Jarod says. “And in a planet that’s currently drowning in assholes, that’s saying a lot.”
“As she reached the stairs, she made a quick detour and stepped outside. A crescent moon hung in the midnight blue sky along with trillions of twinkling stars. Out here there were no streetlights to...”
“There was less than I’d expected in the rainy-day fund that Mom had kept in the bottom of an underwear drawer in a panty hose egg labeled ‘DEAD SPIDERS.’ As if I hadn’t always known it was there. A...”
“Even if the aliens are short, dour, and sexually obsessed—if they’re here, I want to know about them.”
“Look, lady, I’m not going to bullshit you. I need to smoke enough crack cocaine to communicate with aliens. Give me all the money you got!”
“For a being more advanced than I am, he sure has a hard time answering a simple question”
“You think this is a walk in the park, that it’s all beauty pageants and tea parties? Come on girl, wake up! This is survival at its most intense.”
“Because there wasn’t anything else to do, he settled at the kitchen tablewith a bottle of mead and nearly emptied it. The anesthetic effect he hoped for hadn’t happened, though. At least not yet.”
“When I cry - when I let myself cry - that's who I cry for. I don't cry for myself. I cry for the Cassie that's gone.And I wonder what that Cassie would think of me.The Cassie who kills.”
“How would you rather die?" she snapped. "Hiding under your bed or riding Thunder Mountain?”
