Mum said earlier what a lovely dress youβre wearing.β Berylβs eyebrows wriggled like two tiny tapeworms. βThis?β she said. βBut Iβve had this for years.β It was a beige dress that would have looked better on an eighty year-old. Any eighty-year-old, man or woman. βI think youβve really grown into it,β Valkyrie said. βI always thought it was a little shapeless.β Valkyrie resisted the urge to say that was what she meant. β¨ Derek Landy (2011). Death Bringer (Skulduggery Pleasant, Book 6), p.37, HarperCollins UK
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