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“You hardly know me and yet you invited me out on a date, said Miss Dearheart. Why?Because you called me a phoney, Moist thought. You saw through me straight away. Because you didnt nail my head to ...”
“As if one tiny choice by someone unimportant could make that much difference! History had to be a bit tougher than that. It all sprang back eventually, didn't it? He was sure he'd read something ab...”
“Doesn't this place give you the creeps? You could perhaps do something with some floral wallpaper and a fire-bomb.”
“It's madness, of course', thought Moist. 'But now I've got it, too.”
“But, in truth, it had not exactly been gold, or even the promise of gold, but more like the fantasy of gold, the fairy dream that the gold is there, at the end of the rainbow, and will continue to ...”
“Did I do anything last night that suggested I was sane?”
“That's the fashion. Fast as the speed of light, they say. Ha! It's got no soul, sir, no heart.”
“Welcome to fear, said Moist to himself. It's hope, turned inside out. You know it can't go wrong, you're sure it can't go wrong...But it might.”
“It's always worrying to see a journalist take a sudden interest in what you're saying, especially when you half suspect it was a load of pigeon guano.”
“People flock in, nevertheless, in search of answers to those questions only librarians are considered to be able to answer, such as "Is this the laundry?" "How do you spell surreptitious?" and, on ...”
