"Suck blood, don't sleep, live long."
Next read: As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
"Security-sized window, only for little boys."
Next read: Carmilla (Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu)
"Who up jerkin' their homunculus??"
Next read: Cell (Stephen King)
"What if the universal truth is that nothing will ever get fixed?"
Next read: Saturnalia (Stephanie Feldman)
"Oh my god, she's 30! She's a spinster!"
Next read: Be Here to Love Me at the End of the World (Sasha Fletcher)
“I’m building worlds your tiny brain can’t comprehend!”
Next read: Tender is the Night (F Scott Fitzgerald)
"He should have been a better bug."
Next read: The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear (Walter Moers)
"Bring your white man British names. Call it Johnstown."
Next read: The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
"I don't judge you for your spoonless behavior."
Next read: An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz)
"I only have so much heart to cut up and send out to these individual stories."
Next read: Against Technoableism (Ashley Shew)
"It's good we're reading this as adults and we're not two children with a mic."
Next read: How High We Go in the Dark (Sequoia Nagamatsu)
"I did not review the Queen with my adult eyes."
Next read: The Neverending Story (Michael Ende)
“Relish in the depressive child realm with me.”
Next read: The BFG (Roald Dahl)
"You shouted in your heart, and that's what matters."
Next read: The Wide Window (Lemony Snicket)
"Unlegliness is close to godliness."
Next read: Bloomability (Sharon Creech)
"I would rather we not exist if it meant that everything here could thrive the way it did."
Next read: Omon Ra (Victor Pelevin)
"I'm not a fucking octopus, Will!"
Next read: The Good Rain (Timothy Egan)
"No matter who you are, no matter what is stripped away from you, love is at the center of everything."
Next read: Neuromancer (William Gibson)
"No more free range thought. Thought in cage. Thought bad."
Next read: Sirens of Titan (Kurt Vonnegut)
"Pay the fuck attention to the language people use."
Next read: 1984 (George Orwell)
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