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“What’s going on?” she immediately asked, a lovely fake smile on her face. “I’m unclear as to whether I’m being laughed at or laughed with,” Irene told her friend. “Laughed with, doc,” he finally managed. “I promise. You just never fail to
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“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
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“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
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“There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic.”
― The Thirteenth Tale
― The Thirteenth Tale
“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
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“I like good books and clever conversation and being left alone much of the time.”
― The Countess Conspiracy
― The Countess Conspiracy
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