"There was nowhere they could have gone and they went there anyway."
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"The boy had the towering arrogance only seen in the greatest of artists and all nine-year-old boys."
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"He felt her heart beating against his chest. The moment began to transmute, and he wondered if there was something he should do. He wondered if he should kiss her. He wondered if he wanted to kiss her, and he realized that he truly didn't know."
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"Bod quite liked crows. He thought they were funny and he liked the way they helped to keep the graveyard tidy."
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"And I thought, eight years ago, when I began carefully charting the progress of American Gods, nervously dipping my toes into the waters of blogging, would I have imagined a future in which, instead of recording the vicissitudes of bringing a book into the world, I would be writing about not-even-interestingly missing cups of cold camomile tea? And I thought, yup. Sounds about right. Happy Eighth birthday, blog."
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"It's a wonderful thing, as a writer, to be given parameters and walls and barriers."
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"Nobody will ever hurt her. She’ll just smile her faint vague wonderful smile and walk away."
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"What do I do now?” “I don’t know. Fade away, perhaps. Or find another role."
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"I remember making that vow, the one not to forget. Not to remember what happened, but to remember who I was and how I felt."
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"Some things are too big to be seen; some emotions are too huge to be felt."
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"So, having found a lady, could you not have come to her aid, or left her alone? Why drag her into your foolishness?' 'Love,' he explained. She looked at him with eyes the blue of the sky. 'I hope you choke on it,' she said, flatly."
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"So, you figure they won't notice you're back?" sneered the marquis. "Just, 'oh look, there's another angel, here, grab a harp and on with the hosannas'?"
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"It has occasionally been remarked upon that it is as easy to overlook something large and obvious as it is to overlook something small and niggling, and that the large things one overlooks often cause problems."
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"What makes you think I'm giving you a ride?” “Because I'm a damsel in distress,” she said. “And you are a knight in whatever. A really dirty car."
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"This little piggy went to Hades This little piggy stayed home This little piggy ate raw and steaming human flesh This little piggy violated virgins And this little piggy clambered over a heap of dead bodies to get to the top"
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"You know what my mum once said?’ said Rosie… ‘She said that if a just-married couple put a coin in a jar every time they make love in their first year, and take a coin out for every time that they make love in the years that follow, the jar will never be emptied.’ And this means…?’ Well’, she said. ‘It’s interesting, isn’t it?"
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"It's always too late for sorries, but I appreciate the sentiment."
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"For me, closing libraries is the equivalent of eating your seed corn to save a little money."
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"Children, as I have said, use back ways and hidden paths, while adults take roads and official paths."
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"I was not scared of anything, when I read my book."
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