Book quotes!

From Clemency Pogue: Fairy Killer by JT Petty

"Of everything there is good and bad. This is just how things work.

Ideas, dogs, smells, behavior, songs, guys, machines, cheeses, rabbits, shoes, friends, enemies, days, dreams, fairies; of all of these things and others, there are good and bad.

But rules cannot be viewed except by exceptions, and the exceptions are these: newborn mammals and bees. Newborn mammals are invariably good. Bees, however, are all bad."


"The walking stick was not for walking. Clem knew that there were places in the forest where danger lurked. And where it did not lurk, danger squatted, crouched, or lounged. There was one place where danger reclined, but Clemency usually avoided it."


""Ah," began the hobgoblin in a deep breathy voice. "Young love. Young love adds color to the cheeks, but that color must come from the brain, which grows decidedly dim. Young love is like ice cream, it's not so healthy but it sure tastes good, and you better lick it up right after it's scooped, or it becomes a sticky, sickly sweet mess. And nobody likes rum raisin young love." Chaphesmeeso nodded knowingly. "And young lovers are like doves, romanticized and quite lovely, but basically just albino pigeons. They're not so smart. A little American boy vacationing in Brazil met a local girl who took his heart away. Now he's trying to write her a letter to get it back. I guess the missing heart has reduced the blood flow to his brain, because his love letter is the worst thing ever written."


"Love was not quite her territory, but she supposed she could find her way through it if she had a map."


""Oh, good grief," Clemency said. Where to begin? Noah, give up. Grow up and hope you fall in love with somebody illiterate. Or, Noah, the world can always use another priest. Or, Noah, love is not for everybody. Maybe you should try data entry. This was hopeless. She looked again at the poem, as she would have looked at a hamster with a tumor. Hopeless."


"Tinkled like a horse back from a long night of drinking with its friends."


*giggles*