Noticing Sentences

Gender How typical of this Court for everyone else to act mad and then, when I've behaved in a perfectly reasonable manner, compel me to feel as if I were the mad one. p13 Villains He hadn't been a person who cackled and leered and rubbed his hands together villainously like the storyteller said. He'd been simpler than that. He'd spoken simply, reacted simply, and performed acts of violence with a simple, expressionless precision. He'd calmly done whatever he'd needed to do to make things the way he wanted them. p30 Love it The more I see and hear, the more I realize how much I don't know. I want to know everything. p58 "I always trusted you, Lady Queen," said Teddy, "even before I knew who you were. You're a person of generosity and feeling. It warms my heart to know that such a person is our queen." p287 Giddon took her small, clenched fist in his hand, raised it to his mouth, and kissed it. And Bitterblue was lit up...

Dedication For anyone who has been taught that good equals small and silent, here is my heart in all its ugly tangles and splendid fury. Love "I'm scared I'm gonna lose him and I hate being with him, both at the same time. And when he's dead and I'm an orphan, I know I'm going to be sorry I took this trip away from him, d'you know?" p3 Gender Jule watched a shit-ton of movies. She knew that women were rarely the centers of such stories. Instead, they were eye candy, arm candy, victims, or love interests. Mostly, they existed to help the great white hetero her on his fucking epic journey. Where there was a heroine, she weighed very little, wore very little, and had had her teeth fixed. p22 Eff you, Mr. Isaac. I'm not so very ignorant. I just know stuff about stuff that you dismiss as unimportant and useless. p68 American Dream discussion p34 Descriptions Imogen Sokoloff was the type of girl teachers never thought worked to her ...

Descriptions The fact that Ivy wasn't conventionally beautiful made it worse. Power you get from being beautiful is cheap. But Ivy's appeal just came from the her of her. p19 "Being in love is a painful nightmare," he'd told me once. p31 She's been the only one of her siblings to visit regularly. I knew she resented it, but she also seemed to secretly like it, too, because it confirmed her belief about how selfish they were. My mother likes to be right, even about bad things. Maybe about bad things especially. p43-44  It felt like he was playing the role of boyfriend on a TV show. Xavier remembered how to do all the things he was supposed to do, but he wasn't sure how to feel. p120 All Xavier could think was that, yes, he is incredibly handsome and good-looking and seemingly full of energy and love for life, but he was missing something, some spark. His view of the world was exactly what deodorant ads and car-insurance commercials said it sho...

Beautiful Pieces The good Lord's sure weepin at the way His children is bein treated, she says. But for now, there's nothin we can do. p29 The things what we love, we keep buried in our hearts. p53 Aunt Tempie shakes her head. You can't blame the good Lord for what people do. p90 Even if fear steals my soul, I'm never goin to coddle grown people what's got no sense of kindness. p112 _________________ There's a whole beautiful world out there, Grace-- the good Lord made it for everybody. Then why, I wonder, do you work so hard jus to please Master Allen? Why does Jordon have a baby girl he's never goin to see again? p115 ___________________________ Judgin folks by the color of they skin is wrong-- no matter who's doin the judgin. p130 Anyway, I say, jus cause a folk says somethin don't make it true. Skin's got nothin to do with smartness. We both got just as many smart thoughts as Master Al...

This is an ADULT book written by an author who also writes YA. The quotes definitely reflect the adultness of this book. It's also a sequel, so although I have attempted to avoid spoilers for this book, I cannot guarantee there are no spoilers for Nevernight. Humor "You don't find any irony in earning your place in a cult of assassins by saving half a dozen lives?" p67 The old man hooked his thumbs into his waistcoat. "Problem with being a librarian is there's some lessons you just can't learn from books. And the problem with being an assassin is there's some mysteries you just can't solve by stabbing fuck out of them." p67-68 "... And I'll be damned," she said, pointing her practice sword at Mia's face," if the last my blades sing is because you and Furian can't agree on the color of shit. Fuck him. Stab him. Stab him while you fuck him, I don't give a damn. But get it sorted out before you get us all...

What a book! It's harrowing. I don't want to believe it's real, but I know that it is. I don't know that any of these quotes will be helpful in a classroom setting, but I had to collect some of them. They just.. mostly defy reason. But the girls were paid by piece-work, not salary, so the impact of using the pens made a huge difference financially. p173 His theory was this: the girls could not possibly have brought a lawsuit until they knew that the company was to blame. As the firm had actively conducted a campaign to mislead the girls, it should not be allowed to rely upon the delay, which it had caused, as a defense. p178 "James McDonald lost the services of his wife and will in the future be deprived of the comfort and aid of her society and will be compelled to expend large sums of money in an endeavor to treat and cure his wife." p179 its own vice-president had attended the girls' medical tests. p213 "My body means nothing but pain to...

Gender and Expectations It was part of that disorienting feeling she'd had for yeas, that feeling that everyone except her had been issued a handbook. Samantha knew it was important to be pretty and cute, but she had no idea how to be those things, or even why she was supposed to want to be. p23 But now being a girl was like being stuffed into a heavy, constricting costume. She could barely breathe in it. The rules of the universe were fixed: You look a certain way and so you have to act a certain way and people are going to treat you a certain way. There was no way to alter it. p24-25 "You're the only one who knows what you feel," Sasha said. "If that's the word for what you feel, then stick with that." p26 p33-35 has a great glossary for gender/ sexuality terms "For how vehemently I felt like I wasn't a girl, I have to say, being a boy isn't super great either," he admitted. "Both sides have such bullshit baggage atta...