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Yes. I owed my life, Angel's life, and my mother's life to a mutant's ability to create industrial-strength snot.
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And by the way, you clearly know me better than Fang does. Do you see Fang arguing with me? No, you do not.
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I stared at her in amazement. "How do you even live with yourself?"..."You're willing to sell children to a foreign government so they can be used as weapons, possibly against other Americans. I don't get it. Were you hiding behind a door on morals and ethics day?...You couldn't mother someone if they shot five gallons of estrogen into your veins."
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Okay, that so did me in. Mr. Rock being all emotional? Expressing his feelings?" p. 12"
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Ari smiled. The sun was shining, the weather was great, he was eating ice cream, and all his dreams were about to come true.
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It's been said that love finds you when you're ready.
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inspirational
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Um, there's a girl meeting her friend,' he went on. 'Her friend is giving her an ice-cream cone. Oh-it's dripping. Huh. It, uh, dripped on her...chest.' Iggy drew in a hissing breath. It's gonna stain for sure,' the Gasman said. 'That's chocolate.' Hmm,' Fang said, watching, the girl dab at her chest with a paper napkin.
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Steve turned to us again, looking so dang enthusastic that I wondered how much coffee he'd had this morning. "So, you kids want to be big stars, eh?" God, no!" I said spewing crumbs. "No way!" Oddly, this seemed to throw a petite wrench into the convo."
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So, Angel?" I said, looking over at her. She was gliding through the night, her eight-foot wings looking like a dove's. "Have you picked up anything from Anne, about anything? Anything off?" Not really." Angel thought. "From what I can tell, she does work for the FBI. She does care about us and wants us to be happy. She thinks the boys are slobs. I'm ," Iggy said irritably. "How am I supposed to make everything all tidy?" Yeah, because yo..
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Gazzy called over to me "I can't see anything!"
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maxride
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You're children. Don't you want a home, a family?" "With, like, vitamin-fortified cereal and educational television?"
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Jeb: But I need to tell you something first. Max (thinking):
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Im a girl who has been tamping down her emotions and keeping them tightly guarded her whole life. And that works really well for me... And now I felt like my shell had a dangerous crack in it. Without much more effort on his part, it would split wide open and my enormous river of emotions would gush out - the bad and the good. It was pretty much the scariest thing I'd ever thought of." - Maximum Ride."
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The next morning-at least, I assumed it was morning, since we were all waking up- I felt like one of those twelve dancing princesses, who danced all night, wore holes in their shoes, and had to sleep it off the next day. Except, oh yeah: a)I'm not a princess; b)sleeping in a subway tunnel and having another brain attack aren't that much like dancing all night; and c) my combat boots were still in good shape. Other than that, it was the sa..
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I feel like I'm going to HURL. Which, even if I wanted to do, I couldn't do, because I haven't eaten. I can't even drag myself out of my room. And while I'd be able to muster the strength to roundhouse Fang until he begged for MERCY, I'de be mush around an Eraser.
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the-other-epilogue
sad
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Gazzy, man, jeezum!" Fang exclaimed. "What the heck have you been eating for God's sake?" That was a smoke bomb!" Gazzy defended himself. "Not even i could fill this whole flippin' house!"
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Yeah, and so Max and Dylan are supposed to, like, go to Germany and have kids together," I heard Gazzy say. My eyes popped open and I bolted upright. "What?" Fang said, his voice icy.
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Do you know how fast you were going?" Fang looked at the speedometer..."No," he said truthfully. I tagged you at seventy miles per hour,"she said, pulling out a clipboard. I let out an impressed whistle. "Excellent! I never thought we'd be that fast." Fang shot me a look and I put my hand over my mouth."
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Fang looked at me, hope in his eyes, and I smirked at him. I save the huge emotional kissy-face for imminent death scenes. This probably didn't qualify.
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I have an idea. It's risky, and Max will kill us when she finds out." Iggy raised his head. "Sounds like my kind of idea."
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I want to be able to see stuff," Iggy said. "Like I used to, when I was little. And I want to be able to totally kick Jeb's butt." --
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revenge
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maximum-ride
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It's going to give you nightmares for the rest of your wasted life." Oh, my God, I was so badass. It was all I could do not to give a "
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James Patterson |
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Is dere anysing special about you? Anysing vorth saving?" Besides my fashion sense? I play a mean harmonica."
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James Patterson |
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I led the way toward the crowd, trying to look casual, like, Fly? Me? Nah.
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James Patterson |
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Iggy: Now what? Who you gonna call? A quiet voice in the hallway outside: Ghostbusters! (Captain Perry and John groan) John: That phrase is ruined forever.
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James Patterson |
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Men suck, even imaginary ones
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James Patterson |
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You love him so much it feels like you can't go on without him. You feel like you might die without him.
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James Patterson |
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Disappear where?" You know what they say: Curiosity killed the mutant bird kid. But I couldn't help myself."
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James Patterson |
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Listen, street punk. You're a guy, and you're a couple inches taller, and maybe forty pounds heavier, and ooh, you're in a gang. But I've survived ten years of Catholic school, and I will cut you off at your knees without a blink. Do you understand?
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humor
maxride
ratchet
star
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Uh-huh," I said. "Because all you mad, evil scientists sit around whipping up batches of Pillsbury's finest during your coffee breaks. I mean, this is pathetic."
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The house was on fire," i greeted them tersely. "In case you're interested." they both glanced up overhead as if to make sure the house was still standing. Fang sniffed, smelling the smoke. It's out, right?" he said"
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In case you guys didn't catch last week's episode, I'm out of the flock," I informed them. "Angel has no allegiance to me. She's wanted me gone for a long time. And in case you didn't catch all the episodes from the past year, Angel is... unbalanced." "Untrustworthy," Fang seconded. "Unpredictable," Jeb added. "Dangerous," Dylan chimed in."
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The girls can have the bed," Gazzy said. "Iggy and I can sleep on the floor." Excuse me, sexist piglet?" I said, raising my eyebrows. "How about the two smallest people share the bed 'cause they'll . That would be you and Angel." Yeah," said Nudge "Like, I'm too much of a cream puff to sleep on the floor?"
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I need wings," said Total, still sniffling. "I need my wings. Then things like that wouldn't happen." Yeah, that was all I needed. A talking mutant dog."
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Angel?" Yeah?" she looked up, all blue-eyed innocence. I felt stupid, but... "Can Total, um, talk?" Uh-huh," Angel said casually, squeezing water out of her hair. I stared at her. "He . Total talks, and you didn't tell me?" Well..." Angel looked for him, saw he was pretty far away, and lowered her voice. "Don't tell him I said this, but he's actually not that interesting."
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James Patterson |
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1aa5648
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What, eBay isn't good enough for us?
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The instructor stared at me with cold, cut-me-no-slack determination, then got into a fighting stance, holding one hand out, beckoning me. "I saw that movie too!"I said."It was like the coolest movie of all-" He launched himself at me. That was when his day really went downhill."
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I love you. I love your smile, your snarl, your grin, your face when you're sleeping.
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James Patterson |
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When are you going to trust me Max?" asked Fang. "When I go completely bonkers," I laughed." --
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Their mothers were nobodies," Marian (Max's mom) said. "Donor eggs. Lab workers, techs, anyone we found. That was the point- that we could create a superrace out of anything. Out of ." Well, you're right there," I said. "Because we a superrace. And I come from ."
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James Patterson |
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It was the building from the drawing in my brain. And if you don't think that's a weird sentence, maybe you should reread it.
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James Patterson |
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Yeah, you're sitting in a tree because you're . That's easy to see. I can't believe this is , destroyer of despots, warrior hottie, leader of the flock! All you need now to make yourself more pathetic is a pint of Ben and Jerry's ice cream!
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maximum-ride
max
dylan
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I'm gonna barf," I whispered to Fang,wiping my sweaty hands on my jeans. You'll be fine," he whipered back. "You always are.
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That's more than three questions, Max. And sometimes wheter someone is your friend or enemy is all in how you look at it. But if you must know, I consider myself your friend, a good friend who loves you very much. No one Loves you more than I do, Maximum. Now listen. I ask the questions here, not you. You're just here for the ride. For the incredible, indescribable Maximum Ride.
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