From the passenger seat, Ronan began to swear at Adam. It was a long, involved swear, using every forbidden word possible, often in compound-word form. As Adam stared at his lap, penitent, he mused that there was something musical about Ronan when he swore, a careful and loving precision to the way he fit
the words together, a black-painted poetry. It was far less hateful sounding than when he didn’t swear.
Ronan finished with, “For the love of … Parrish, take some care, this is not your mother’s 1971 Honda Civic.”
Adam lifted his head and said, “They didn’t start making the Civic until ’73.”
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Though she be but little, she is fierce!
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"But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking
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lucky, the chance is still there. The chance had to be there.
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It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
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Qu’il vienne, qu’il vienne,
Le temps don’t on s’eprenne.
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So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world
like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.
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Zeus, the god of gods, who rules according to law, and is able to see into such things, perceiving that an honourable race was in woeful plight, and wanting to inflict punishment on them, that they might be chastened and improve, collected all the gods into
their most holy habitation, which, being placed in the centre of the world, beholds all created things. And when he had called them together, he spake as follows: -
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“How did you know about the fire?” I asked Morelli. “Dispatch called me. They always call me when your car explodes or goes up in flames.”
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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.