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  1. Robin McKinley _ Sunshine

    I wasn't grateful. You want to talk cranky, coitus interruptus takes me well beyond cranky. My engorged labia felt like they were pressing on my brain-what there was of my brain-and if I didn't get to fuck someone, something, now-a vampire would do-I was going to fucking explode. My cunt ached like a bruise.Beyond cranky, rather fortunately, doesn't transmute into embarrassment. It transmutes into fury. As my blood pressure began to rearrange itself to a more standard unengorged pattern I was seething.
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  2. Robin McKinley _ Sunshine

    The rose shadows said that they loved the sun, but that they also loved the dark, where their roots grew through the lightless mystery of the earth. The roses said: You do not have to choose.
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  3. Robin McKinley _ Sunshine

    It is halfway true that if you are involved in a family coffeehouse you don't have a life.
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  4. Robin McKinley _ Sunshine

    When you're feeding the second coachload of tourists that day you aren't thinking about the birthday party for fifty next week.
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  5. Robin McKinley _ Sunshine

    And everybody dreams about vampires; we grow up dreaming about them. They're the first and worst monster that lives under everybody's bed.
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  6. Robin McKinley _ Sunshine

    Post-traumatic shock, phooey. Seemed to me the trauma was trotting right along with me, like a dog on a leash with its owner. I was the dog. I
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  7. Robin McKinley _ Sunshine

    The most serious drawback to the telling-nothing approach is that it made that much more of a mystery of what had happened, and the nature of gossip abhors a vacuum of the unexplained."
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  8. Robin McKinley _ Sunshine

    Mr. Responsible Media was looking rebellious, but this was my country. I was the Cinnamon Roll Queen and most of those assembled were my devoted subjects.
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  9. Robin McKinley _ Sunshine

    Muffin cups in my bakery were real sorcerer's apprentice material, like the dough for the cinnamon rolls every morning could have stood in for The Blob.
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  10. Robin McKinley _ Sunshine

    Cornbread?"He brightened immediately. I was as bad as Paulie, really, despite how long I'd been doing this. Someone wants to eat my food, they're automatically my friend. Someone who doesn't want to eat my food, they automatically aren't. This is an awkward attitude if you hang out a lot with a vampire.
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  11. Robin McKinley _ Sunshine

    I liked that: a little pressure on the understood boundaries of yourself.
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  12. Robin McKinley _ Sunshine

    Reread your favorite novel, the one you only let yourself read any more when you're sick in bed.
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