When Georgie thought about divorce now, she imagined lying side by side with Neal on two operating tables while a team of doctors tried to unthread their vascular systems.
It was nice to meet you,” Levi said, and you’d have to really know Levi to know that he didn’t mean it.
God, she was weird.
We’ll make our own enough.
Quiero que todo el mundo te conozca. Eres la persona que me cae mejor del mundo entero.
But if you didn’t know about magic, if you were born Normal or just ignorant, and then you saw some magic – if you witnessed a miracle with your own eyes – would you just leave it be? If you got a glimpse into a secret world, would you pretend it hadn’t happened? Or would you spend the rest of your life trying to find a doorway?
It’s death,” I say, refusing to raise my voice, “because when you’re hungry, you can’t stop thinking about eating other people.
You know my mum. ‘Information wants to be free.’ ‘There’s no such thing as a bad thought.’ Our library is practically as big as Watford’s and better stocked. If you wanted to find something dangerous in there, I’m sure you could.
Money and time, those were the two things that he always heard people complaining about, and he had plenty of both.
I mean, you heard Mark. If you just want to see the new Star Wars movie, you can buy your ticket online and then forget about it until show time. But if you want to wait in line, you wait in line, you know?
Before she was allowed to take the albums out of their sleeves, Eleanor used to lay them out on the floor and stare at the artwork. When she was old enough, her dad taught her how to dust the records with a wood-handled velvet brush. She could remember her mother lighting incense.
Everywhere he’d touched her felt untouchable. Everywhere he’d touched he felt safe.
I hope you’re not right about life sucking for everyone who can’t fly and wears glasses. That describes everyone in this room.
When she smiled up at him, he felt his heart swell against the inside of his chest. He felt that way all the time now. Even when he was holding her, it felt like there was something inside of him trying to burst out and embrace her.
He was a roommate-in-law.
Imagine the humiliation of dying at The Cheesecake Factory.
Come on.” Cath turned toward her room and waited for him to fall into step beside her. “I’m sorry,” she said softly. “I didn’t realize we were having a serious conversation until we were.
I still wish you’d get a dog,” she said. “I’d never remember to feed it.” “Maybe we could train it to feed you.
Shut that thing down,” Nick said. “You’re corrupting my creative centers with static.” “That’s what she said,” Cath said, closing her laptop.
It was like their lives were overlapping lines, like they had their own gravity.