The danger would be going back, or staying still. The only way out was through. The past was ruins, but the present was still in play.
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A big silvery janitor. Penny, this can’t be how the universe works.” “In the Order we call it ‘inverse profundity.’ We’ve observed it in any number of cases. The deeper you go into the cosmic mysteries, the less interesting everything gets.
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Do you promise to hate my parents as much as I do?” “Oh, absolutely,” Quentin said. “Maybe even more.
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Supposedly I’ve got traces of an English accent, though I can’t hear it. I must have inherited it from my mother, who’s English, and then I think it was exacerbated by the fact that I live with an Australian.
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The novel is a highly corrupt medium, after all – in the end the vast majority of them simply aren’t that great, and are destined to be forgotten.
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I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.
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The truth doesn’t always make a good story, does it?
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Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there’s nothing else.
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Magic is wild, dangerous stuff. You never realize how useful limitations are until it’s much too late.
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Josh speculated about the hypothetical contents of an imaginary porn magazine for intelligent trees that would be entitled Enthouse.
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My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.
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Careful what you hunt, lest you catch it.
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It turns out that there is something that can compete with free: easy.
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Some of the comments on YouTube make you weep for the future of humanity just for the spelling alone, never mind the obscenity and the naked hatred.
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A magician is strong because he feels the pain between what the world is and what he would make of it.
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I love playing with the conventions of fantasy, and breaking rules, and crossing lines.
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