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“Lucy had told me more than once that the past was a burden, that it was time to tear everything down.”
― Sweet Tooth
― Sweet Tooth
“Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you.”
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
“The constrained lives of his characters made me wonder how my own existence might appear in his hands.”
― Sweet Tooth
― Sweet Tooth
“There was, in my view, an unwritten contract with the reader that the writer must honour. No single element of an imagined world or any of its characters should be allowed to dissolve on an authorial whim. The invented had to be as solid and as self-consistent as the actual. This was a contract founded on mutual trust.”
― Sweet Tooth
― Sweet Tooth
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