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Human contact is a terrible drug. Sometimes, you’ll even take the hit you know is tainted. You can’t stop yourself. The need is too strong.
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Monsters, you know, cannot appreciate the niceties of commandments carved in stone.
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The point's not what it costs; it's what it costs you. Everything you have. That's my price, that's my prize, that's my ransom, and that's my rune. The only price in the world that matters is the one that hurts to pay.
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That’s what a map is, you know. Just a memory.
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Death hath no dominion.
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In war you must always choose sides. One or the other. Silver or black. Human or demon. If you try to be a bridge laid down between them, they will tear you in half.
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You can't blame a book for its story.
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A thing too familiar becomes invisible.
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Cocky don't say anything and that's as good as love right about now.
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A library is never complete. That’s the joy of it. We are always seeking one more book to add to our collection.
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And that’s how you begin to win over a child. People who share a secret share a heart.
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Readers will always insist on adventures, and though you can have grief without adventures, you cannot have adventures without grief.
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Histories are instruments of oppression.
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But love is love, and love is compulsion. I must, and I do.
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