#p. 26

[pamelaandrewsblog]

That girl is always scribbling

Mr. B

[firstreadbooks]

The Waters residence is a two-storey colonial house covered in ‘Encouragements’ like ‘Good Friends Are Hard to Find And Impossible to Forget’, ‘True Love Is Born from Hard Times’, and ‘Family Is Forever’. They’re on cushions, in frames, in stained glass. How God damned cheesy.

--Chapter 2, p.26, p.27 (TFiOS)

[firstreadbooks]

“A college girl,” he said, nodding. “That explains the aura of sophistication.”

Chapter 2, p.26 (TFiOS)

WHAT SOPHISTICATION?!

[firstreadbooks]

“So now you gotta go back to school,” he said. “I actually can’t,” I explained, “because I already got my GED. So I’m taking classes at MCC,” which was our community college.

Chapter 2, p.26 (TFiOS)

You were complaining about possibly being seen as a ‘corpse’ when you admitted that you ‘don’t go to school’. But you go to college. How is that the same as being pulled out of school? What a stupid mislead.

[alibellule]

As long as Hato lives his life the way he really wants to, that'd be all I need.

[alibellule]

[riot-meds]

I wanted the hurtling moons of Barsoom. I wanted Storisende and Poictesme, and Holmes shaking me awake to tell me, "The game's afoot!" I wanted to float down the Mississippi on a raft and elude a mob in company with the Duke of Bilgewater and the Lost Dauphin. I wanted Prester John, and Excalibur held by a moon-white arm out of a silent lake. I wanted to sail with Ulysses and with Tros of Samothrace and eat the feeling of romance and sense of wonder I had known as a kid. I wanted the world to be what they had promised me it was going to be - instead of the tawdry, lousy, fouled-up mess it is.

'Glory Road' by Robert A. Heinlein