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  1. Maureen Johnson _ The Last Little Blue Envelope

    I'd love to be a tabletop in Paris, where food is art and life combined in one, where people gather and talk for hours. I want lovers to meet over me. I'd want to be covered in drops of candle wax and breadcrumbs and rings from the bottom of wineglasses. I would never be lonely, and I would always serve a good purpose.
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  2. Maureen Johnson _ The Last Little Blue Envelope

    I don't think I've ever seen you without braids. I thought your hair just grew that way.
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  3. Maureen Johnson _ The Last Little Blue Envelope

    You have to imagine your way through. Never say something can't be done, even if it's weird.
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  4. Maureen Johnson _ The Last Little Blue Envelope

    People always say they can't do things, that they're impossible. They just haven't been creative enough.
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  5. Maureen Johnson _ The Last Little Blue Envelope

    And I think something is beautiful if it reveals something important about what it means to be alive.
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  6. Maureen Johnson _ The Last Little Blue Envelope

    She's gone. Been gone for ages. They split up right after you left. That's why the grass out front started growing again.""He's got a new girlfriend?" she said quietly. "Thank god. You must be happy.""Yeah. He does. It's a relief. She's a lot nicer. But then, your average angry snake is nicer than Fiona. I'm sure she's happier wherever she is now, burning orphans or whatever she does with her time.
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  7. Maureen Johnson _ The Last Little Blue Envelope

    This kind of thing always amazed Ginny--people who just walked away from institutions. People who left school when they didn't see the point. Aunt Peg had done that. Ginny knew she never would. That either made her someone who worked hard and finished things, or someone who didn't have the guts to break away from the pack. Maybe both.
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  8. Maureen Johnson _ The Last Little Blue Envelope

    They weren't pressed together as closely as normal, but his shoulder bumped hers, then remained there. It was very subtle, and possibly even accidental, but it was enough.
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  9. Maureen Johnson _ The Last Little Blue Envelope

    You want to play?" Ellis yelled. "All right, then! I played as a kid, bitches!" "There!" Oliver yelled. "That way! Toward Boulevard Périphérique. There! There!" The car swerved abruptly to the right. Ginny heard Keith swear for a solid ten seconds.
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  10. Maureen Johnson _ The Last Little Blue Envelope

    Top Trumps appeared to be a game in which you got cards, and the cards had a picture {in this case, of a horse}, and told you all kinds of stats for that horse, how fast it was, how big it was, etc. Whoever had the better horse won both the cards. You repeated this until someone had all the cards. So, basically it was exactly like high school, except it only took three minutes. Which was really a bit more humane, if you thought about it.
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  11. Maureen Johnson _ The Last Little Blue Envelope

    Ah," he said. "I had an . . . artistic disagreement with the director of the panto. As it happens, I take issue with the objectification of women in Cinderella, and the reliance on shoes as a means of identification. Surely you understand.
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  12. Maureen Johnson _ The Last Little Blue Envelope

    She couldn't take her eyes off the boxers. Mostly, she had a view of the back, but he turned halfway when he looked over. She commanded herself not to look at the front flap, which, of course, was exactly what she honed in on.He spit and put his mouth under the tap to get some water. All while just wearing underwear. All while she just stared at the crucial spot of the Action Pants.
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