Any librarian or scholar will tell you: Close is not the same as accurate.

You're quite tall.' Just what a girl wants to be reminded of.

Evie was so nervous that she downed her cocktail in two stiff swigs, then refilled her glass. Henry arched an eyebrow. “A pro, I see.” “What else is there to do in Ohio?

You evah hear of a magic screw?' I cough back a laugh. 'No. No, sir.

Warning: If you are insufferable, do not walk here. We shall eat you down to the marrow.

Reason was for suckers and Presbyterians.

I'm floating inside my skin. I could go on floating like this for days. Right now, the real world with its heartbreak and disappointments is just a pulse against the protective membrane we've drunk ourselves into. It's somewhere outside us, waiting." A Great and Terrible Beauty, Page 141, by