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“And the Crooked Man heard her dreams, because that was where he wandered. His place was the land of the imagination, the world where stories began. The stories were always looking for a way to be t...”
“Story!" The dwarf snorted. "You'll be talking about "happily ever after" next. Do we look happy? There's no happily ever after for us. Miserabily ever after, more like.”
“Slow animals always become prey in the end.”
“A demon obsessed with being human is a demon no longer”
“Why did you shoot him?""You weren't around," I replied, my teeth gritted in pain. "If you'd been here I'd have shot you instead.”
“They were on the side of the angels, even if the angels weren't entirely sure that this was a good thing.”
“What's seldom is wonderful.”
“And Nurd, who had never had a mother and father, and who had never loved or been loved, marvelled at the ways in which feeling so wonderful could also leave one open to so much pain. In a strange w...”
“If cats could count, theyd start getting nervous around the time they put paid to their fifth life.”
“Dogs were generally incompatible with melancholy.”
“She had not given me the cross to keep the bad men away, as a child might have been expected to do. No, in her mind the bad men could not be kept away. They were coming, and they would have to be f...”
“He had quite liked the dwarfs. He often had no idea what they were talking about, but for a group of homicidal, class-obsessed small people, they were really rather good fun.”
“We all have our routines," he said softly."But they must have a purpose and provide an outcome that we can see and take some comfort from, or else they have no use at all. Without that, they are li...”
“A condensed Shakespeare with all of the dull parts removed, leaving only the great moments of drama: ghosts, and bloodied daggers, and dying kings.”
“But don't they say that all is fair in love and war? I heard that somewhere.""'They?' Who are 'they?'""I don't know. Just people.""That's what the victorious claim, not the defeated; the powerful, ...”
“The only person who needs to know about failure is yourself.”
“I feel that I'll be buried in Ireland and don't think I'll ever live in the U.S. I'm not comfortable with many aspects of U.S. society - especially the justice system.”
“But he was wounded, and tired, and winter was still upon him.”
“Its a full-time job being homeless. Its a full-time job being poor.”
“I used to think this was all about good and evil, said Rickett, but its not.No?Theres a kind of evil that isnt even in opposition to good, because good is an irrelevance to it. Its a foulness thats...”
