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“After a week he was moved to a different wing and into a shared six-by-eight with a grizzled old con called Alf. He had faded tattoos that stained most of the visible skin on his hands, arms and neck a dull blue, sharp eyes and a thick beard that made his mouth look like an axe wound on a bear.”
― The Zombie Room
― The Zombie Room
“We don't have to be defined by the things we did or didn't do in the past. Some people allow themselves to be controlled by regret.Maybe it's a regret, maybe it's not. It's merely something that happened. Get over it.”
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“The Alchemy Scroll works on the heart,” he said. “It plants words as I plant stones. The Scroll-maker is my brother. He paints the mysteries of God while I, guided by the Mother, built the new Hall as a door to heaven,” he said.”
― The Alchemy Fire Murder
― The Alchemy Fire Murder
“To prohibit a great people, however, from making all that they can of every part of their own produce, or from employing their stock and industry in the way that they judge most advantageous to themselves, is a manifest violation of the most sacred rights of mankind.”
― An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
― An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
“— ¿Y cómo va a castigarnos?
—No, quiero decir que ya lo está haciendo. Cortando la luz.
—Ah, pero eso no es malo.
Mamá se echa a reír.
—¿Cómo que no? nos estamos helando, estamos comiendo verduras babosas...
— Sí, pero pensaba que nos iba a castigar también a nosotros—trato de imaginar cómo —. si por ejemplo hubiera dos habitaciones, y me pusiera a mi en una y a ti en la otra”
― Room
—No, quiero decir que ya lo está haciendo. Cortando la luz.
—Ah, pero eso no es malo.
Mamá se echa a reír.
—¿Cómo que no? nos estamos helando, estamos comiendo verduras babosas...
— Sí, pero pensaba que nos iba a castigar también a nosotros—trato de imaginar cómo —. si por ejemplo hubiera dos habitaciones, y me pusiera a mi en una y a ti en la otra”
― Room
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