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6456d71
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"Maybe you've never fallen into a frozen stream. Here's what happens. 1. It is cold. So cold that the Department of Temperature Acknowledgment and Regulation in you brain gets the readings and says, "I can't deal with this. I'm out of here." It puts up the OUT TO LUNCH sign and passes all responsibility to the... 2. Department of Pain and the Processing Thereof, which gets all this gobbledygook from the temperature department that it can't understand. "This is so not our job," it says. So it just starts hitting random buttons, filling you with strange and unpleasant sensations, and calls the... 3. Office of Confusion and Panic, where there is always someone ready to hop on the phone the moment it rings. This office is at least willing to take some action. The Office of Confusion and Panic hitting buttons."
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maureen-johnson
the-jubilee-express
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Maureen Johnson |
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62d090f
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Just then, my phone started ringing. The ring must have been damaged by the water as well, so now it had a high, keening note - kind of the sound I imagine a mermaid might make if you punched her in the face.
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maureen-johnson
the-jubilee-express
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Maureen Johnson |
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4fb1d8d
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Don't get stabbed. It makes everything awkward.
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awkward
funny
maureen-johnson
shades-of-london
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Maureen Johnson |
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5619f65
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It was as if the news itself wanted to reassure me. Even Jack the Ripper himself had reappeared as part of the greeting committee.
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maureen-johnson
the-name-of-the-star
ya
young-adult
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Maureen Johnson |
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3ea14d5
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...but somehow when it's real, when it's your life... that person can feel even farther off and more unobtainable than an actual celebrity. Proximity doesn't breed familiarity
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life
maureen-johnson
proximity
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Maureen Johnson |
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b48732b
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Certainly there were places of greater natural beauty--but Paris but UNNATURAL beauty, which was arguably better.' - The Runaway Queen (The Bane Chronicles, 2) by Cassandra Clare and Maureen Johnson
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cassandra-clare
magnus-bane
maureen-johnson
natural-beauty
paris
the-bane-chronicles
the-runaway-queen
unnatural-beauty
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Cassandra Clare |