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“She had headed towards town aimlessly, looking for the kind of escape that could be found only in a solitary walk through a crowd.”
“All I wanted," Saina thought, "was to make someone feel something." Money can't do that. Just looking at a dollar bill did nothing to your emotions you have to make money or lose money for it to ma...”
“It's not that he was flirting, unless flirting was just about wanting to really see someone. People thought that someone like him good-looking, young, cool clothes was going to be dismissive, and w...”
“He did it for that bubbling, champagne-in-the-veins high, that desire to be part of someone elses new life, someone elses realised potential.Vampires must feel like that.”
“As many Chinas as there were, there were that many Charleses as well. Every immigrant is the person he might have been and the person he is, and his homeland is at once the place it would have been...”
“Im not going to be part of this, said Leo. He opened his hand and dropped the flowers. Fragrant, obedient, they beheaded themselves on Sainas salvaged-wood floors.”
“I’m not going to be part of this,” said Leo. He opened his hand and dropped the flowers. Fragrant, obedient, they beheaded themselves on Saina’s salvaged-wood floors.”