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“Whoa, wait a minute, Coletrane. Are you proposing to me?”“Well I would if you’d let me finish,” he grumbled.”
“Patience can be a means of letting matters mature to a proper state for action, not just a way of letting time slip away.”
“And maybe that’s was her biggest crime of all. Making him fall in love with her.”
“Spring came late. For the children, shut in the dark, cold parsonage, adjusting to Aunt and getting over the death that brought her, the winter had seemed endless. But now the rough moor was flecke...”
“All I said was that I thought it was a judgement from God that Blyth had first lost his leg and then had the replacement become the instrument of his downfall. All because of the rabbits. Eric, who...”
“Bright morning comes; the bloody-fingered dawn with zealous light sets seas of air ablaze and bends to earth another false beginning. My eyes open like cornflowers, stick, crusted with their own st...”
“...and I confess that, like a child, I cry. Ah, self-pity; I think we are at our most honest and sincere when we feel sorry for ourselves.”
“This revolution is for display purposes only.”
“I killed little Esmerelda because I felt I owed it to myself and to the world in general. I had, after all, accounted for two male children and thus done womankind something of a statistical favour...”
“I switched the light out again. The room was totally dark, not even the starlight showing while my eyes adjusted. Perhaps I would ask for one of those LED alarm radios, though I’m very fond of my o...”
“Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can't even finish my second apple pie.”
“An intelligence completely dissociated from the physical, or at least an impression of it, was a strange, curiously limited and almost perverse thing, and the precise form that your physicality too...”
“The greatest compliments I’ve ever received were complaints from readers that I made them stay up all night reading.”
“I just think people overvalue argument because they like to hear themselves talk.”
“In life you hoped to do what you could but mostly you did what you were told and that was the end of it.”
“Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a fucking sharp knife to it.”
“He is the complete opposite of her, or maybe just a completion of her.”
“I sucked that smoke in and made it part of me, joined mystically with the universe right at that point, said Yes to drugs forever just by the unique hit I got from that one packet of fags Andy libe...”
“What you believe matters, however. It’s all anyone has to act on. And since what you do is who you are, your actions define you. If you don’t believe anything is true simply because you can’t logic...”
“Och, stop being so sensitive, Prentice; it isn't much fun getting old. One of the few pleasures that do come your way is to speak your mind... Certainly annoying your relatives is enjoyable too, bu...”
