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“Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
“Reality is something you rise above.”
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“For he was firmly of the conviction that the body was more susceptible to disease without the presence of love to warm the organs.”
― The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise
― The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise
“Standing at the original Victorian counter was a man in a long black leather coat. His hair had been grown to counteract its unequivocal retreat from the top of his head, and was fashioned into a mean, frail ponytail that hung limply down his back. Blooms of acne highlighted his vampire-white skin.”
― The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise
― The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise
“This is a foul thing that shouldn’t be allowed to exist. No firearms should exist. The fact that they are still made and that all sorts of people have them lying about in drawers or carry them around in the street just shows that the whole system is perverted and crazy. Some bastard makes a fat profit by making and selling arms, just the way other people make a fat profit on factories that make narcotics and deadly pills. Do you get it?”
― The Laughing Policeman
― The Laughing Policeman
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