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Gertje was right. To be an American was to be blessed with a kind of idiotic but very useful innocence.

Okay, now you're starting to scare me, Wes says. No, scary is the way people can alter their voices on cue. Like your imitation of that creepy guy who lives at your house. You mean my dad? he laughs.

I like cheeseburgers too much to be a model.

Our inhumane neighbors, instead of sympathizing with us tauntingly proclaim the healthfulness if their won cities…

God did not intend for Irish kids to play in the sun, according to my mother.

A mockingbird lands on a low oak branch and scolds me. I rake the leaves out of my throat. Me: Can you buy some seeds? Flower seeds?

Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liberty, without Freedom of Speech. —Benjamin Franklin, 1722

She's packing at least five grand worth of orthodontia, but has great shoes.

How did she do all of these things? She was bold, brave, stubborn, and smart. And Sarah Hale had a secret weapon… a pen.

It's a proclamation he regards as complete absolution from answering...as if his last name was Bush, he was eighteen, and there was a draft going on.

How bad do you want cancer? Bad enough to eat a rainbow of it? Personally, I think the red cancer would be the worst, but anything you swallow with artificial hues in it is going to pop a tumor out of your body the day after you eat it.

Sure, I'd like to lose some weight, but a tapeworm is the last way I'd like to do it, except becoming a prisoner of war.

This is not a midlife crisis car," I corrected him. "This is a midlife memory car!

You see why I married her, Mycroft? The exquisite juxtaposition of ladylike threads and backhanded compliments proved irresistible.

You did tell me what a very superior sort of mind your friend has. What a pity he was born trapped in a man's body.

You envy me my educated tastes.

I think not. I find short hair too much fuss, always needing combing and cutting. Long hair is much easier, oddly enough." There

Do you plan on indulging your flair for the dramatic throughout our time here?" "I expect so," he said complacently.

Wasn't it Will Rogers who said he never met a man he didn't like?" "Whoever it was, I'd say he didn't get out much.

And I gather they did." "What is it Mehitabel always says? In archy and mehitabel? 'There's life in the old dame yet.' Ã¢â'¬Â "And she said that?" "What she said, word for word, was 'So I took him into the bedroom and fucked his brains out.

Your mother spreads herself for camels.

I try to avoid eating endangered species, let alone mythical ones. You

A mind may be a terrible thing to waste, but it's an even worse thing to have to listen to.

I'd read Skid Row U.S.A., by Sara Harris