Kell wore a very peculiar coat. It had neither one side, which would
be conventional, nor two, which would be unexpected, but several, which
was, of course, impossible. The first thing he did whenever he
stepped out of one London and into another was take off the coat and
turn it inside out once or twice (or even three times) until he found
the side he needed. Not all of them were fashionable, but they each
served a purpose. There were ones that blended in and ones that stood
out, and one that served no purpose but of which he was just
particularly fond.
pride and prejudice by jane austen it is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
His father wanted Wylan to vanish. He’s wanted hin to disappear the way he’d made Wylan’s mother
disappear, and for a long time, Wylan had wanted the same thing. That had started to change when he came to the barrel, when he got his first job, when he met Jesper and Kaz and Inej, when he’d begun to realize he was worth something.
Jan Van Eck was not going to get his wish. Wylan wasn’t going anywhere.
⤷ “Hello, there’s protein in the peanut butter”, Nicky said. “Let go of me before I tell Andrew you’re outlawing chocolate. I said let go. You’re not the boss of me. Ouch! Did you seriously just hit me?”
“I’m walking away and pretending I don’t know you”, Aaron said. “Traitor”, Nicky called after him.
“Kevin, just let him go”, Neil said. “It’s not worht fighting over.” “When out defense is sluggish we all suffer”, Kevin said.
“You aren’t serious”, Nicky said. “We’ve got how many hours until serve? This will all be out of my system by then. You can watch me take a shit if you don’t believe me. I didn’t think you were into that kind of thing but - ha”, he crowed when Kevin stomped off. He flashed Neil a triumphant grin, oblivious to the way the store clerks were staring at them.
He had no idea where the stereotype of dumb giggly blondes came from. Ever since he’d met Annabeth at the Grand Canyon last winter,when she’d marched toward him with that Give me Percy Jackson or I’ll kill you expression, Leo had thought of blondes as much too smart and much too dangerous
