Welcome to Thursday Quotables! This weekly feature is the place to highlight a great quote, line, or passage discovered during your reading each week. Whether it’s something funny, startling, gut-wrenching, or just really beautifully written, Thursday Quotables is where my favorite lines of the week will be, and you’re invited to join in!
A little programming note: While I’m mostly back to weekly postings, I find I’m not at 100% yet! I’ll continue to post Thursday Quotables most weeks. If I happen to skip a week when you have a post to share, feel free to link up to whichever TQ post here is most recent. Many thanks!
Onward with this week’s Thursday Quotable:
Indexing: Reflections by Seanan McGuire
(published 2016)
Because I’m “reading” this series via audiobook, it’s taking me quite a while. So, for the second week in a row, I just have to share a few passages from Reflections, which has been keeping me riveted (and occasionally snorting with laughter) on my morning commutes. First, an ominous passage:
The air was cold, and the wind tasted of apples, and something was very, very wrong.
Ooh. Chills, right?
And a moment that made me laugh, courtesy of my favorite character Sloane, who is tough as nails and talks like a Valley Girl:
I produced my badge from my pocket and held it up for the camera to see. “Agent Sloane Winters, ATI Management Bureau. We’re with the United States Government; we’re allowed to punch people if we want to.”
“Please tell me that’s not going to be our new motto,” said Demi.
And finally:
I glared at her for a moment before I started striding toward the entrance to the maze. “I hate you,” I said.
“I know,” said Ciara, following me.
“I’m going to play jump rope with your intestines.”
“Won’t that be fun for both of us.”
“Don’t make fun of me.”
“I wouldn’t dream of it.”
What lines made you laugh, cry, or gasp this week? Do tell!
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