“Miller was staring at him like an entomologist trying to figure out exactly where the pin went.”
Daniel Abraham (1969) speculative fiction writer from the United States
Source: Leviathan Wakes (2011), Chapter 45 (p. 457)
“In our minds we tried to pin her to a corkboard like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew”
— Jerry Spinelli, book Stargirl
Source: Stargirl
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American children's writer 1941Related quotes
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