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“Would you think,” Richard asked, “that I was being picky if I pointed out that trying to find something with an angel on it in here is going to be like trying to find a needle in an oh my God it’s Jessica.”
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“Mr. Croup began to laugh. It sounded like a piece of blackboard being dragged over the nails of a wall of severed fingers.”
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“that was okay. Nice food. And no one was trying to kill us.” “I’m sure that will remedy itself as the day goes on,” said Hunter, accurately.”
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“turn my head, and you may go where you want. I turn it again, you will stay till you rot. I have no face, but I live or die by my crooked teeth—who am I?”
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“I have always felt,” he said, “that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats”
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“Remember- their minds are chaos.”
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“Znacznie łatwiej jest nie wierzyć w coś, kiedy to coś nie patrzy na ciebie i nie wypowiada twojego imienia.”
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“Someone stumbled into him, cursed and walked away. Richard was lying prone on the platform, in the rush-hour glare. The side of his face was sticky and cold. He pulled his head up off the ground. He had been lying in a pool of his own vomit. At least, he hoped it was his own.”
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“You've been a really good friend to me, Richard. And I've sort of got to quite like having you around. Please don't go.' He squeezed her hand in his gently. 'Well,' he said, 'I've sort of got to quite like having you around, too. But I don't belong in this world. In my London...well, the most dangerous thing you ever have to watch out for is a taxi in a bit of a hurry. I like you too. I like you an awful lot. But I have to go home.' She looked up at him with her odd-coloured eyes, green and blue and flame. 'Then we won't ever see each other again,' she said. 'I suppose we won't' 'Thanks for everything you did,' she said, seriously. Then she threw her arms around him, and she squeezed him tightly enough that the bruises on his ribs hurt, and he hugged her back, just as tightly, making all his bruises complain violently, and he simply didn't care.”
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“Richard had no idea who he was, any more; no idea what was or what was not true; nor whether he was brave or cowardly, mad or sane, but he knew the next thing he had to do. He stepped on to the train,and all the lights went out.”
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“A click: the sound of a switchblade opening, empty, lonely and dark.”
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“Richard began to understand darkness: darkness as something solid and real, so much more than a simple absence of light.”
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“All fire burns, little baby. You’ll learn.”
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“And the girl pulled whatever she could find deep inside her soul, from all the pain, and the hurt, and the fear.”
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“Can I help you?’ said the footman. Richard had been told to fuck off and die with more warmth and good humour.”
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“His life so far, he decided, had prepared him perfectly for a job in securities, for shopping at the supermarket, for watching football on the telly on the weekends, for turning on a heater if he got cold. It had magnificently failed to prepare him for a life as an un-person on the roofs and in the sewers of London,”
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“Can’t make an omelette without killing a few people.”
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“Have you ever got everything you ever wanted? And the realized it wasn't what you wanted at all?”
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“events were cowards: they didn’t occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.”
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“And Jessica saw in Richard an enormous amount of potential, which, properly harnessed by the right woman, would have made him the perfect matrimonial accessory.”
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“He’s traveled so far beyond right and wrong he couldn’t see them with a telescope on a nice clear night,”
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“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 mind.”
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“Ah,” said Varney. “Then I’m working for you, aren’t I?” “Yes, you are,” said Mr. Croup. “I’m afraid we don’t have any redeeming features.” “That doesn’t bother me,” said Varney. “Good,” said Mr. Croup. “Welcome aboard.”
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“After four days of flight, she had found a hiding place...”
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“I’d watch out for doors if I were you.”
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“Your hero is unable to hold his wine, I see,' observed Serpentine, dispassionately.
'He is not my hero,' said Door.
'I'm afraid he is. You learn to recognize the type. Something in the eyes, perhaps.”
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'He is not my hero,' said Door.
'I'm afraid he is. You learn to recognize the type. Something in the eyes, perhaps.”
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“As I live, breathe, and defecate!”
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“This is his real domain,” muttered Hunter. “Things lost. Things forgotten.”
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“London grew into something huge and contradictory. It was a good place, and a fine city, but there is a price to be paid for all good places, and a price that all good places have to pay.”
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“My hound hath no nose.”
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