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I dropped my voice and stared into her eyes. I could tell she was trying hard not to look away. I was so furious I could have cheerfully ripped her head off. "But you're going to find out, Mom,' I said very softly."And it's gonna give you nightmares for the rest of your wasted life." Oh, my God, I was so badass. It was all I could do to not give a MWA HA HA!"
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threats
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You really hurt me. I wouldn't hurt you.
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maxi
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Just between you and me and the lamppost, Dylan could easily be girl's perfect other half. If I didn't already a perfect other half, I might have been thrilled with the gift of my very own gorgeous mutant.
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You know how some kids get excited about the first day of school and have an outfit all picked out and a new lunch box and stuff? Well, they're bleeping idiots. Can we play hooky?" Iggy muttered as he scrambled eggs. Somehow I suspect they're picky about that," I said, dropping more bread into the toaster. "I bet they'd call Anne." I look like prep school Barbie," Nudge complained, as she entered the kitchen. She caught sight of me in my un..
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Advanced life-forms, my seweet patootie. Jerks. Both of them.
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You know things have gone bad when military marches pass for pop music.
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I flipped down the visor so I could check myself in the mirror, and something small and heavy dropped into my lap. I froze, my breath stuck in my throat. What--? Gingerly, I looked down. It wasn't a grenade. It was a key ring. One key was for this van. I looked at it blankly. "Well, that'll simplify things," Fang said."
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You could have gotten a car with GPS," Total said helpfully. Yes," I said "Or we could have brought along a dog that doesn't talk." I gave Angel a pointed look, and she smiled, well, angelically, at me. Total huffed, offended at me and climbed into her lap..."
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I looked around. As flock leader, everyone was expecting me to make a decision. Jeb's presence here would bring uncertainty, chaos, probably danger. It would perk up my day.
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A vet! I started laughing weakly and had to sit on the edge of the tub. A vet. Wait till they found out how appropriate that was.
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Angel wanted them all to burn in h-e- double toothpicks forever.
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Veins practically popping out of his neck, the jerk leaned out his window and yelled a bunch of swear words, including a new one I tucked away in my brain for future use, if necessary.
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What are we but our stories?
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Choose now,' he spat, his eyes practically shooting sparks. 'Me or him.' 'Gosh, Fang, you romantic fool,' I said sarcastically. 'How incredibly sexist-pig of you.
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Great, they give blind kids guns," I said, trying to lessen his horror. "I don't even let Iggy have a gun. Usually."
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The receptionist looked us over, then went back to typing something incredibly urgent--like her resume for another job.
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what was fang going to do BLOG about max throwing herself into space so she wouldn't have to kiss him again? NO instead he smashed his fist against the cave wall then grimaced at the pain and stupidity seeing his bloodied knuckles
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Unfortunately, every time someone said "debriefing," the entire flock had one image: someone's tighty-whities disappearing in a flash. We were smothering our giggles, but it was getting harder. Coupled with the whole "naval this, and naval that," with its undeniable belly-button connotations, we were essentially turning into a sugar-jacked, sleep-deprived flock of incoherent, silly, recombinant-DNA goofballs. This was not going to end well...
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I love Nudge, Nudge is a great kid, but that motormouth of hers could have turned Mother Teresa into an ax murderer
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Angel: What's sauerkraut? Max: You don't want it. Trust me.
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I was crazily, deeply, incredibly, joyously, terrifiedly in love.
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Another day. Get up and face it.
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It's wherever you are. If it's tapped into any of your senses, it knows where you are and what you're doing." Oh no, I thought, my spirits sinking. I hadn't considered that. Did that mean nothing I did was ever anymore? "Even in the bathroom?" the Gasman's eyes widened with surprise."
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James Patterson |
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Pain is a message, and you can choose to ignore that message.
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James Patterson |
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I want to know about my mom. And other stuff. I want to know the whole story, good or bad." "Me, too," said Gazzy. "I want to find my parents so I can tell'm what total scuzzes they are. Like, 'Hi, mom and dad, you're such scum!"
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Later," Fang said to Ella and Dr. Martinez in that gushy, hyperemotional, overdramatic way he has."
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Actually, I'd already briefed him, early this morning. Since we were up at six. Since, at six, the nurse had been overcome with the overwhelming compulsion to take Fang's temperature .
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Dead Max was the biggest oxymoron in history.
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You have a memory chip that small implanted in you," he verified. I nodded, guessing this was somewhat worse than having cooties."
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What test?" Asked Nudge. "Max, you're incorruptible." "Only by power." I said. "You haven't tried chocolate yet."
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It is my time. The time of maximum ride...
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Please, I begged silently, please do not let my last moments on earth be me crammed into a tiny boat in the dark, surrounded by mechanical singing pirates.
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We're just not cut out for all this media circus crap. But then, you already knew that.
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I want to be a scientist who studies the ocean when I grow up. I would go out to sea, and scuba dive, and find new things, and National Geographic will hire me." Sure, Nudge. Probably around the time I become president."
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I just wish I could walk into my Senator's office and say, "Senator Dude, Um, we have a problem with these sicko scientists..." But then again, I don't think we have a Senator, do we? Is there a state where mutant freaks are represented? If so, let me know."
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Save your world. Love it. Protect it, and respect it and don't let haters represent it. Don't leave the saving to anyone else, ever, because, exhibit A - why, hello there - it's way too much for one person. And if you want to skip out on the responsibility train, my whole life - and death - will have been in vain.
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Have you been playing in toxic waste lately?
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Every other person in the world would have looked at it and thought, Max would hate this. It was girly. It was beautiful. It wasn't made of titanium and black leather with spikes on it. But it seemed exactly right, in a weird, heart-fluttery kind of way. And I really loved it.
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Iggy. This is not a democracy," I said,(...)"It's a Maxocracy."
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Right there, in front of everyone, I threw my arms arond his neck and mashed my mouth against his. He was startled for a second, then his strong arms wraped around me so tightly I could hardly breathe. "ZOMG," I heard Nudge whisper."
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The thing is, Maximum, I love you. I can't help but be focused on you when we're together. If you're in the room, I want to be next to you. If you're gone, I think about you. You're who I want to talk to. In a fight, I want you at my back. When we're together, the sun is shining. When we're apart, everything is in shades of gray.
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James Patterson |
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You're a fridge with wings. We're freaking ballet dancers! -Fang
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James Patterson |
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You are a fridge with wings. We're freaking ballet dancers.
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James Patterson |
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Maybe he was a good a good whitecoat--like Jeb. And maybe the moon was made of cream cheese.
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