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“Sometimes there is nothing you can do.”
“After four days of flight, she had found a hiding place...”
“Give me boredom. At least I know where I'm going to eat and sleep tonight.”
“You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not.”
“I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don't want to be sane.”
“I have always felt, he said, that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats”
“The abbot cleared his throat. "You are all very stupid people," he told them graciously, "and you do not know anything at all.”
“Richard began to understand darkness: darkness as something solid and real, so much more than a simple absence of light. He felt it touch his skin, questing, moving, exploring: gliding through his ...”
“There are little pockets of old time in London, where things and places stay the same, like bubbles in amber, she explained. Theres a lot of time in London, and it has to go somewhereit doesnt all ...”
“The Marquis sighed. "I thought it was just a legend," he said. "Like the alligators in the sewers of New York City."Old Bailey nodded, sagely: "What, the big white buggers? They're down there. I ha...”
“Now me, said Mr. Vandemar.What number am I thinking of? I beg your pardon? What number am I thinking of? repeated Mr. Vandemar. Its between one and a lot, he added, helpfully.”
“So the day became one of waiting, which was, he knew, a sin: moments were to be experienced; waiting was a sin against both the time that was still to come and the moments one was currently disrega...”
“What a refreshing mind you have, young man. There really is nothing quite like total ignorance, is there?”
“A table for TONIGHT should certainly have been booked years before-perhaps, it was implied, by Richard's parents. A table for TONIGHT was impossible: if the pope, the prime minister, and the presid...”
“Darkness is happening," said the leather woman, very quietly. "Night is happening. All the nightmares that have come out when the sun goes down, since the cave times, when we huddled together in fe...”
“The thin girl was gulping down one of Richard's bananas in what was, Richard reflected, the least erotic display of banana-eating he had ever seen.”
“The marquis de Carabas was not a good man, and he knew himself well enough to be perfectly certain that he was not a brave man. He had long since decided that the world, Above or Below, was a place...”
“Until that moment she had never thought she could do it. Never thought she would be brave enough or scared enough, or desperate enough to dare.”
“That's right," said Door. Her cheek lightly grazed and her dirty reddish hair was tangled; tangled but not matted. And her eyes...Richard realized that he could not tell what color her eyes were. T...”
“She smiled again. "Do you like cat?" she said."Yes," said Richard. "I quite like cats."Anaesthesia looked relieved. "Thigh?" she asked, "or breast?”
“The marquis stared at Richard, openly amused. "What a refreshing mind you have, young man," he said. "There really is nothing quite like total ignorance, is there?”
“What," asked Mr Croup, "do you want?""What," asked the Marquis de Carabas, a little more rhetorically, "does anyone want?""Dead things," suggested Mr Vandemar. "Extra teeth.”
