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“What’s it like then?” asked Old Bailey. “Being dead?” The Marquis sighed. And then he twisted his lips up into a smile, and with a glitter of his old self, he replied, “Live long enough, Old Bailey, and you can find out for yourself.”
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“You are afraid of hell. But that’s all religion is, really. Fear of a place we’d rather not be, and where there’s no such a thing as suicide to steal us away.”
― The Sisters Brothers
― The Sisters Brothers
“No mourners, no funerals. Another way of saying good luck. But it was something more. A dark wink to the fact that there would be no expensive burials for people like them, no marble markers to remember their names, no wreaths of myrtle and rose.”
― Crooked Kingdom
― Crooked Kingdom
“Her heart was a river that carried her to the sea.”
― Crooked Kingdom
― Crooked Kingdom
“The life I should be living had been mislaid through some clerical error by the cosmic bureaucracy.”
― The Magicians
― The Magicians
“I will never be a leader of men, and neither do I want to be one, and neither do I want to be led. I thought: I want to lead only myself.”
― The Sisters Brothers
― The Sisters Brothers
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