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A sword of pure moonlight flashed in the angel’s hand. The two fought viciously as another dark shape closed in. The girl fell. Closer to the ground now. Close to the priest. He ran under her. Her form grew bigger swiftly, coming at him.
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“You had to hand it to the Patrician, he admitted grudgingly. If you didn’t, he sent men to come and take it away.”
― Guards! Guards!
― Guards! Guards!
“Crime fiction for the gentleman who loves crime novels, but hates reading.”
― Red Handler
― Red Handler
“Veldt to scrub to fields to farms to these first tumbling houses that rise from the earth. It has been night for a long time. The hovels that encrust the river’s edge have grown like mushrooms around me in the dark.”
― Perdido Street Station
― Perdido Street Station
“In memory, we find the most complete release from the narrowness of presented time and place.... The picture is one of human beings confronted by a world in which they can be masters only as they ... discover ways of escape from the complete sway of immediate circumstances. —F. C. Bartlett, Remembering”
― The Good War: An Oral History of World War II
― The Good War: An Oral History of World War II
“A sword of pure moonlight flashed in the angel’s hand. The two fought viciously as another dark shape closed in. The girl fell. Closer to the ground now. Close to the priest. He ran under her. Her form grew bigger swiftly, coming at him. Please, God. He caught her, mostly. His nose bloodied, his eye shut, his mouth full of grit. They rolled. She smelled of juniper. Somehow he picked her up and ran.”
― Between Two Fires
― Between Two Fires
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