We did it!" I said, feeling limp with relief. "It actually worked!" Dr. Turgenev rubbed his forehead. "I had very big doubts." "Big doubts?" I said weakly. The Russian scientist shrugged. "I am pessimist," he said.

I turned around and headed back to the stairwell, planning to go downstairs and buy a chocolate bar from the vending machine. Maybe it would fall on me and end my misery.

It's the way you look whenever she mentions her fiance. My cat looks like that before he hacks up a hairball.

We did it!" I said, feeling limp with relief. "It actually worked!" Dr. Turgenev rubbed his forehead. "I had very big doubts." "Big doubts?" I said weakly. The Russian scientist shrugged. "I am pessimist," he said.

You've no fear of heights," puffed the girl. "None," I said. "I've heard that about you.

If my heart were a compass, you'd be North.

You can't eat [literature], that's the problem," he said. "I've tried, it's very dry, and not at all nutritious.