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A Different Kind of Light

by Simon Bestwick (Goodreads Author)

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The Quiet Gentleman

by Georgette Heyer

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The Chronicles of Clovis

by Saki

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“It’s too bad that stupidity isn’t painful.”
― Anton LaVey

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“Fuck every cause that ends in murder and children crying.”
― Iain M. Banks, Against a Dark Background

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“The first step towards mastering time is always to make time meaningless”
― Robert Aickman

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“I'm sorry," Billy says, "but I felt it was too organized. I like ellipses and teeny jottings and spontaneous poems and particularly all those devices like long lists of melancholy things.”
― Edmund White, Forgetting Elena

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“Notice this rent in my garment; I am at a loss to explain its presence! I am even more puzzled by the existence of the universe.”
― Jack Vance, Tales of the Dying Earth

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