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“and behind the stone the faint drifting of the stars that is not movement, but the heavens breathing. Still”
― The Hollow Hills
― The Hollow Hills
“Het zou een nieuwe taak van de literatuur kunnen zijn: gevaarlijke processen voorkomen door ze op tijd te beschrijven.”
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“There was no going back now. Rubber and metal could only take so much. The car could shatter and send its passengers into an elemental distillation of rock, flesh, blood, and ash. Alchemy, thought Mary, grimly. Too much bloody alchemy.”
― The Alchemy Fire Murder
― The Alchemy Fire Murder
“During the Depression of the 1930s everyone suffered, even the rich. It was hard times for all and people helped each other if they could. Americans coming through that together meant something. Now they were being asked to struggle again. But because so many servicemen were killed at Pearl Harbor, Americans had a cause that they all shared – fight the Fascists and keep the threat and the war from coming home. Yet, now the grim reality, the depths of the sacrifices, and the grief of their losses was devastating.”
― The Cases Nobody Wanted
― The Cases Nobody Wanted
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