Supervisor didn’t like me using the phrase “hot take” in lit. review but reassured me, it will become a standard in academic prose in about 10 years.
What do the people in your life (human acquaintances, coworkers, etc) generally tend to think of you and Esme? Does your (necessary) “holier-than-thou” facade tend to extend to Esme? She seems so sweet, it’s hard to envision her being ok needing to come off otherwise.
My colleagues inevitably adore my wife; they think she is sweet, and funny, and generous.
According to Edward, they then often wonder what it is that keeps her with me, and proceed to make some in fact uncorrelated, but nevertheless correct assumptions about my performance in the bedroom.
Seriously though. Can you imagine how much it irks Carlisle that you can't perform autopsy and dissection on vampires? That if you don't incinerate all the parts right away, they just start reassembling? Like, there are so many things the dude wants to know about vampire physiology—exactly why do they glitter? How much of a digestive system is actually in there? What on earth is going on in their gonads?—and he can't cut anybody up to find out.
I always like to think this is part of the chaotic relationship that he has with Emmett; that Emmett is the one person in the family to whom Carlisle can go, "Can I rip off your leg at the femur? For an hour" and Emmett is like, "Sure, if you let me look."
Refrigerator in school be like