Joel N. Ross Quotes

#1. Wait a second," I said. "Did we just win?

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#2. You know what to do?"
"Wander around," I said. "Until I spot a self-assembled whangdoodle from the Foggy depths.

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#3. Did you just call me 'sweetie'?" I asked.
She shoved my shoulder. "No.

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#4. Now?" I asked. "Like, now now?"
"What other kind of now is there?" Loretta asked.

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#5. Well, the bad news," Swedish said from the wheel, "is that Chess still thinks he's funny."
"What's the good news?" Loretta asked, leaning on our little copper-tubed harpoon. "That Kodoc dropped a bomb on the city?

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#6. Uh, she said maybe your eyes matched the Fog like a synchronous magnetic field?"
"I don't even know what language that is.

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#7. We're alive!" Swedish told her. "I did not see that coming.

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#8. Now you're listening to Swedish ?" I asked her. "He thinks I'm the Compass because every time I see ticktocks, I happen to be there!

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#9. After an hour the score was:
Quancita - 34
Radiz - 51
Sally - froglegs
Perla - 9 and 21
Me - hoo-hoo-hooo

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#10. Are you . . . lost?"
"Not really," she told him. "We just don't know where we're going.

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#11. It was going to be our job to annoy someone?"
"I know - it's a dream come true!

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#12. Are you okay?"
"Yeah."
"Good," she said, "because if you fall off a skyscraper, I'll be so mad at you.

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#13. What are you doing?" I asked Loretta.
"Stabbing a cushion," she told me.

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#14. Did Cap'n Vidious leave that? He is such a cuddlebunny."
"Yeah," I said, "that's exactly how I'd describe him.

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#15. ...Loretta threatened to beat him to death with a wooden spoon...

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#16. Why would they follow me?" I asked Swedish. "It doesn't make sense."
"They're made of trash and Fog," he said. "You think they make sense?

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#17. Keep moving!"
"Bea's arguing with the floor.

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#18. Loretta started belting out a song: "Row, row, row your boat, sitting in a tree! K-I-S-S-I-N-G !

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#19. If Chess is the switch," Loretta said, "how does he turn the Fog off?"

Bea bit her lower lip. "I don't know - ask Chess."
"How would I know?" I said. "You try being a switch.

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