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“Witch. The word drifted across his mind. We call such women so, because we have no other name.”
― The Girl in the Tower
― The Girl in the Tower
“Could it be that goodness waxes and wanes like the moon, and that only evil is constant?”
― Speaking from Among the Bones
― Speaking from Among the Bones
“Damn it, she writes detective stories and in detective stories virtue is always triumphant. They're the purest literature we have.”
― Strong Poison
― Strong Poison
“Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.”
― The Night Circus
― The Night Circus
“I wanted to cry.
I also wanted to go to my laboratory and prepare an enormous batch of nitrogen triiodide with which to blow up, in a spectacular mushroom cloud of purple vapor, the world and everyone in it.”
― Speaking from Among the Bones
I also wanted to go to my laboratory and prepare an enormous batch of nitrogen triiodide with which to blow up, in a spectacular mushroom cloud of purple vapor, the world and everyone in it.”
― Speaking from Among the Bones
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