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Only ninnies go to Penny's.

These words have been sanitized for your protection. An adjective and a noun, respectively.

Dear, dear Cecily, or as I affectionately refer to her in the privacy of my mind, She Who Inflicts Misery Simply by Breathing.

No. It is impossible to maintain a smile in my brother's presence. Monks haven't the sort of patience required.

What's the difference between an undead and my last boyfriend? One is a soul-sucking beast from hell and the other is an undead.

We've got about as much chance of communing with the dead as we do of sitting in Parliament.

No historians or librar ians were harmed in the making of this book, but some were badgered extensively with questions.

Very well, Your Ladyship Brooding St. Petulant

A bonfire billowed up. Some in the crowd tossed copies of Ladybird's book into the fire while a librarian pleaded with them not to do that and grabbed a fire extinguisher.* *Really, being a librarian is a much more dangerous job than you realize.

All children are demons, Evie said, breathing heavily. This is precisely why I always refuse to babysit.

Shall I tell you a story? A new and terrible one? A ghost story? Are you ready? Shall I begin?

See, that's your generation all over-you muck up everything and then expect us to fix your messes.

What is the French word for rain? Le rain? La rain? Is the rain masculine or feminine? It's such a bother that it must be masculine.

Any good world would allow for us to have free will, yes?" he continued. "Can we agree to this point? But once human beings have free will, they also have the ability to make choices—and commit evil. Thus, this very good thing, free will, allows the possibility of evil into our fine world.

That's . . . because I am pathetic. In life as in film, find your niche and work it.

Mabel's parents had said that it was bigotry dressed up to look like science.

Jaunti, who was half Qwilleran's age, now had the gall to write a column of wit and wisdom from the Delphic heights of his adolescent ignorance.

And Koko's behavior has been abnormal since we moved in. He's always talking to himself and staring into space.' 'He's talking to ghosts,' Roger said with a straight face.

She gazed into space, afflicted by sudden deafness, a common disorder in felines.

For he's good to think on if a man would express himself neatly.

You have underwear. I'm glad you enjoyed it. Did you try it on? Nah. Just rubbed it against my face.

What are you doing?" she cried in protest. "Playing," he said, the single word rough, almost guttural.

Don't you want it?" "Want what?" "The engagement ring." "Oh, is that what's in the box? You threw my engagement ring at me?" Boy, this was such a big transgression I would have to write it in block letters on its own page, and show it to our children when they grew up as an example of how not to do something.

It's not the heat, came his return mutter. It's a critical buildup of sperm.