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“No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero,”
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“...history, as you may know, is much like a spiral staircase that gives the illusion of going up, but never quite goes anywhere.”
― City of Stairs
― City of Stairs
“I suppose love falls where it falls.'
'Generally, one can see it toppling from afar, and make an effort to get out of the way.”
― Half a War
'Generally, one can see it toppling from afar, and make an effort to get out of the way.”
― Half a War
“Traffic in Joburg is like the democratic process. Every time you think it's going to get moving and take you somewhere, you hit another jam.”
― Zoo City
― Zoo City
“This is only a record of broken and apparently unrelated memories, some of them as distinct and sequent as brilliant beads upon a thread, others remote and strange, having the character of crimson dreams with interspaces blank and black -- witch-fires glowing still and red in a great desolation.”
― The Moonlit Road and Other Ghost and Horror Stories
― The Moonlit Road and Other Ghost and Horror Stories
“Historians, I think, should be keepers of truth. We must tell things as they are - honestly, and without subversion. That is the greatest good one can do.”
― City of Stairs
― City of Stairs
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