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The kind of smile that has kept a froggy, dark sort of surprise in its back pocket, and won’t spoil it too soon.
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That’s what a map is, you know. Just a memory.
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Magic is just a word for what’s left to the powerless once everyone else has eaten their fill.
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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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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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Death hath no dominion.
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That is what happens when a person lives alone for so long - no one else can change their ways.
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How wonderful is ritual, what comfort in dark times!
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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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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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Histories are instruments of oppression.
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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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But love is love, and love is compulsion. I must, and I do.
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