"It seems to me the worst of all the plagues is the slug, the snail without a shell. He is beyond description repulsive, a mass of sooty, shapeless slime, and he devours everything."

-- Celia Thaxter

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“I'll never be like a Barbie girl, that's for sure.”
“I'm not proud of having been married -I've had five affairs, all of them real wingdings. I've enjoyed every ***** minute of them, but sooner or later I've outgrown every one of them, and when I did I got fed up and threw them out. If they can't keep up with me, the hell with them.”
“It seemed like we were losing every night for a different reason. Now we're winning a different way every time. It's a great feeling.”
“But especially he loved to run in the dim twilight of the summer midnights, listening to the subdued and sleepy murmurs of the forest, reading signs and sounds as a man may read a book, and seeking for the mysterious something that called -- called, waking or sleeping, at all times, for him to come.”
“The last chapter in any successful genocide is the one in which the oppressor can remove their hands and say, 'My God, what are these people doing to themselves? They're killing each other. They're killing themselves while we watch them die.' This is how we came to own these United States. This is the legacy of manifest destiny.”
“The books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers.”
“Friendships are forgotten when the game begins.”
“(on grief) And you do come out of it, thatâ€™s true. After a year, after five. But you donâ€™t come out of it like a train coming out of a tunnel, bursting through the downs into sunshine and that swift, rattling descent to the Channel; you come out of it as a gull comes out of an oil-slick. You are tarred and feathered for life.”

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