"Shadow looked down at the girl on the table. “What happened to her?” he asked. “Poor taste in boyfriends,” said Jacquel. “It’s not always fatal."
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"Something feels weird," he told Laura. That wasn't the first thing he said to her. The first thing was "I love you," because it's a good thing to say if you can mean it, and Shadow did."
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"That is what Alex is now: a shadow-boy"
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"But maybe you carried your demons with you everywhere, the way you carried your shadow."
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"The one that came really easy was the Japanese lover, because he's like a ghost in the book. He's always in the background like a spirit, like a shadow, almost. There's a very delicate line there."
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"I stand in the sunny noon of life. Objects no longer glitter in the dews of morning, neither are yet softened by the shadows of evening."
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"My shadow is only half of what it should be." "Everyone has their shortcomings."
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"And as the years have passed, the time has grown longer. The sad truth is that what I could recall in five seconds all too needed ten, then thirty, then a full minute - like shadows lengthening at dusk. Someday, I suppose, the shadows will be swallowed up in darkness."
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"If you look toward the sunshine, you will never see the shadows."
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"No hair so small but hath his shadow."
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"The Lord of Light in his wisdom made us male and female, two parts of a greater whole. In our joining there is power. Power to make life. Power to make light. Power to cast shadows."
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"Ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow. Tyrion smiled. Lord Varys, I am growing strangely fond of you. I may kill you yet, but I think I'd feel sad about it. I will take that as high praise."
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"Every true artist feels that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil."
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"The first light had cast the first shadow."
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"A luminous body will appear more brilliant in proportion as it is surrounded by deeper shadow."
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"The imagination is to the effect as the shadow to the opaque body which causes the shadow."
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"All the events which make the annals of the nations are but the shadows of our private experiences."
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"When a shadow flits across the landscape of the soul where is the substance?"
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"This life is a shadowy thing, lad. We live in a crowded space of lights and shadows, and when left to ourselves, we all too often fail to see the brightest light of all."
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"I read anything I could get my hands on: science fiction, fantasy, horror, thrillers. I even became hooked on the Bantam reprints of the old pulp novels from thirties and forties: Doc Savage, The Shadow, The Avenger."
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