Thursday, May 30, 2013

Gooseberry

Altogether, gooseberry virtues take some getting used to, as does trepang, tripe a la mode de Caen, or having turned thirteen.

- GOOSEBERRY FOOL BY AMY CLAMPITT

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Suit

People are afraid of you, Arty. Girls are terrified of you. You're a fifteen-year-old in a bespoke suit, and nobody died.

- ANGELINE FOWL, ARTEMIS FOWL AND THE ATLANTIS COMPLEX BY EOIN COLFER, PG 216

Sunday, May 26, 2013

Icing

Baker baker, can you explain
If truly his heart
Was made of icing
And I wonder
How mine could taste...

- BAKER BAKER BY TORI AMOS

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Disaster

And though we were sick of it and about it, we were greedy for it. We felt privileged there in our protected world, and we felt guilty, and this was our punishment.

- BLOOMABILITY BY SHARON CREECH: CHAPTER DISASTER, PG 148

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Butlers

You won't get Seppings away from a dance till you throw him out. I know him. The jazz'll get to his head, and he'll stand clapping and demanding encores till his hands blister. Damn all dancing butlers!

- AUNT DAHLIA, RIGHT HO, JEEVES BY PG WODEHOUSE, PG 216

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Rockstar

You're just jealous because I sound like a rockstar.

- BEAST BOY, TEEN TITANS:SEASON 3: EPISODE 7: REVOLUTION

Monday, May 6, 2013

Birds

"Not," I said to her softly, "to unicorns. Nothing's inaccessible to unicorns. Not even - not even white birds."

- ANNIE ON MY MIND BY NANCY GARDEN, PG 78

Saturday, May 4, 2013

Fall

I feel that I would like
to go there
and fall into those flowers
and sink into the marsh near them

- THE WIDOW'S LAMENT IN SPRINGTIME BY WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS

Thursday, May 2, 2013

Bleachers

Don't stop dancing in the bleachers.

- BREAKTHROUGH, LEMONADE MOUTH