“Of course witnessing poverty was the first to be ticked off the list. Then I had to graduate to the more obscure stuff. Being in a riot was something I pursued with a truly obsessive zeal, along with being tear-gassed and hearing gunshots fired in anger.”
“I love the ritual of drawing up lists, and there's something wonderfully satisfying about ticking tasks off.”
“I'd witnessed for the first time in my vampire- obsessed existence an actual vampire bite. The only problem was that it wasn't my neck being bitten.”
“I have a list in my head of all the feelings I still want to feel before I die. And you have ticked so many things off that list.”
“I just inhaled kimchi ramen. Nose on fire. Next chapter may be obscured by tears.”
“I can see we're going to get along like a house on fire," said Miss Tick. "There may be no survivors.”