Zuzana Quotes

#1. From: Zuzana Subject: Miss Radio Silence To: Karou

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#2. So, you wouldn't marry me."
"Ridiculous question. I'm eighteen!"
"Oh, it's an age thing?" He frowned. "You don't mean wild oats, do you? We're not going to have some stupid break so you can experience other
"
Zuzana put a hand over his mouth. "Gross. Don't even say it.

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#3. So what,' said Zuzana. 'They had to be pretty stupid butterflies to fall for him anyway. You'll grow new ones with more sense. New wise butterflies.

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#4. There were some piled furs in the corner, but they were gross and old, and Zuzana was pretty sure that a variety of otherworldly vermin were living out rich, multigenerational sagas in them.

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#5. Zuzana wondered if she could have been wrong about him, but dismissed the thought. Anyone who would wear all white like that clearly had issues. Just looking at him made her wish she had a paintball gun, but hell, you couldn't pack for every eventuality.

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#6. I know. Life is so unfair. I'm still not going to pee on Karou's ex-boyfriend for you." "What? I wasn't even going to ask you to." In her most reasonable tone, Zuzana explained explained, "I just want you to pee in a balloon so I can drop it on him.

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#7. World peace for dinner," mused Mik, scratching his beard stubble. "Does that come with fries?"
"It freaking better," said Zuzana. "Or I will send it freaking back.

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#8. Karou loved Zuzana for her willingness to play out such silliness on a long kite string.

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#9. Plus, it would be fun. Don't you think? I've always wanted to tase someone. Zap! Zuzana mimicked convulsions.

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#10. The two of them were stoic and stone-faced and ten feet apart, currently not even looking at each other, but Zuzana had the impression of a pair of magnets pretending not to be magnets. Which, you know, only works until it doesn't.

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#11. My kingdom for caffeine," she mumbled, making prayer hands up at the ceiling.
When, however, in the next second, Issa entered with tea, Zuzana was not grateful.
"Coffee, I meant coffee," she told the ceiling, as if the universe were a waiter that had gotten her order wrong.

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#12. This wasn't a person, Zuzana thought, this was greed wearing skin.

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#13. Zuzana arched an eyebrow. She was a master of the eyebrow arch, and Karou envied her for it. Her own eyebrows did not function independently of each other, which handicapped her expressions of suspicion and disdain.

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#14. Seriously?" Zuzana muttered. "As if he knows. Like he didn't tell the last twenty-five reporters because he was saving this excellent secret knowledge just for her?

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#15. Oh, gross. Your stomach is full of butterfly barf!

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#16. It had worked. She understood. Things can kill you. All kinds of things, like toys, or older brothers. And as she'd grown up, that list had just gotten longer and longer.

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#17. You read best what you read most.

Zuzana Licko

#18. We read best what we read most.

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#19. Scientist and smart fellow learner-of-stuff, want to do samurai-monster training with us? We intend to become dangerous.

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#20. No, tiny violent one.

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#21. You are not just going to vanish like this, Karou. This isn't some goddamn Narnia book.

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#22. Be a Samurai.
Because you just never know what's behind the freaking sky.

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#23. I'm lucky I'm even alive," she announced. "When I was little, I sucked on duck eyeballs.

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#24. The most popular typefaces are the easiest to read; their popularity has made them disappear from conscious cognition. It becomes impossible to tell if they are easy to read because they are commonly used, or if they are commonly used because they are easy to read.

Zuzana Licko

#25. What a lovely display of personhood. He's like a good book cover that grabs your gaze. Read me. I'm fun but smart. You won't be able to put me down.

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#26. Anyone who would wear all white like that clearly has issues

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#27. A mystery is the most stimulating force in unleashing the imagination.

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#28. I want to build spires in their minds and dance shadows through like marionettes, chased by whispers and hints of the unspeakable.

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#29. Now, let's not be hasty,' said Mik 'What exactly is a samurai, really? Do you think that's something we should know before we wish it?'
'Good point. It might turn us both into Japenese men.' She squinted at him. 'Would you still love me if I were a Japenese man?'
'Of course

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#30. When he started to renew his protest, she held up a hand. What are you more afraid of: them or me with low blood sugar?

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#31. Cake for later, cake as a way of life.

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#32. You are a conniving, deceitful hussy. I stand in awe."
"You're sitting."
"I sit in awe.

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#33. Around Mik, my powers desert me. I lose basic motor function, like my brain focuses all neural activity on my lips and shifts into kiss preparedness mode way too early, to the detriment of things like speech, and walking.

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#34. Me, sweep him off his feet? I know. The laws of the jungle and romance novels would have it the other way around, but I'm not going to wait one more second for that.

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