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“The longer you wait on those steps”—she motions toward the tower—“the greater your fear has a chance to grow.
“I was no longer standing on the edge. I had already stepped off, and now I was holding on by my fingers, and I was slipping, slipping, slipping. You will not break me.”
― A Parade of Horribles
― A Parade of Horribles
“If you go to war against drugs, drugs will always win. Drugs will win because what you’re really doing is going to war against the biological imperative all living creatures have to find comfort and happiness. And if you’re unwilling or unable to first provide that, artificial alternatives, no matter how destructive, will always prevail”
― A Parade of Horribles
― A Parade of Horribles
“Sometimes there are no good choices, and we just do what we have to.”
― A Parade of Horribles
― A Parade of Horribles
“If they could sell illegal drugs to the miners with an “E,” they could also start selling drugs to the minors with an “O.” Kids are a lot stupider than adults”
― A Parade of Horribles
― A Parade of Horribles
“Death awaits you at every turn,” Mordecai croaked with a deep, heavy voice filled with grit, different from the already scary voice he had just been using. “The shadows reach even now for a porous soul such as yours. It is unquenchable, this thirst. You are reached for by both sides. Who will entwine you? The tree or the abyss?”
― A Parade of Horribles
― A Parade of Horribles
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