Kate Scelsa Quotes

#1. Love remembers the places where it touched down. You can follow it back to them.

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#2. I can see the future. Oh look! I see us! There we are. We look great.

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#3. May we live impossibly," Sebby said when he opened his eyes. "Against all odds. May people look at us and wonder how such jewels can sparkle in the sad desert of the world. May we live the impossible life.

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#4. Look. Vegan, gluten-free quiche."
"What exactly makes it quiche?"
"Well, the shape, I guess. It's quiche shaped."
"Sounds great."
"Your sarcasm is not appreciated."
"Sounds gross."
"Thank you. Honesty.

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#5. And I love that all their overdone liberal bullshit totally backfired," he said. "Of course it did. People are assholes. End of story."
"The world according to Sebastian Tate."
"It's a philosophy that has gotten me far in life.

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#6. Are you just hoping to see some boobs, Rose?" Sebby asked. "Is that what this is about?"
"Oh yeah," Rose said. "I've got a one-track mind and it's all about JV boobs.

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#7. They rolled up the maps of their bodies until they were two continents of interlocking roads and rivers and dreams, and she thought, 'This is how I will learn to live again'.

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#8. I know what you mean", she said. "Families can seem so normal and boring from the inside that you don't know you're different until someone else makes you feel different.

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#9. What are we going to do?" I said.

"I guess we're going to sit here and wait for this night to end. Every night has to end eventually.

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#10. Like many things with Julie, "family time" did not happen because it was something that you wanted to do. It happened because it was dictated by some outward force of propriety.

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#11. And I say, 'We are pilgrims too.'
And we say, 'But this time we won't lie. We will tell the truth about our explorations.

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#12. Wow," Mira said, looking around, "super fun."
"When do they bring out the pig's blood and dump it on the head of the awkward girl with telekinetic powers?" Sebby asked.
"Not until ten, I think."
"Well, what are we supposed to do until then? This was not well planned.

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#13. Probably not great to call a nine-year-old a prostitute," Mira said.
"Fine. Filthy whore, then.

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#14. Rose, this is Sebby," she said. "Sebby, Rose."
"Oh yeah. Sebastian, right?" Rose said. "I've hard about you."
"Only terrible things, I hope."
"The worst.

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#15. What if the insane are too raw to know which stations are real and which are just confused static?

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#16. I know you think that we saved you or something, Jeremy," he said. "That we were stronger than you. But we're not. We weren't. We're all just trying to survive however we can.

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#17. She had decided that because she couldn't love her body, she would try to love what she put on it.

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#18. So when someone new came into this world of preordained power structures, someone who looked like they might understand a certain kind of emptiness, you might notice her.

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