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Emily Linacre
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“Coal, with time and heat and pressure, will always become a diamond. But if you were freezing to death, which would you consider the gem?”
― A Spark of Light
― A Spark of Light
“Only godless savages eschew the series comma.”
― Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
― Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
“this was indeed some crazy world, where the waiting period to get an abortion was longer than the waiting period to get a gun.”
― A Spark of Light
― A Spark of Light
“But questioning a madman is like interrogating a spider. They both go on spinning their webs until someone squashes them out of existence.”
― The Little Liar
― The Little Liar
“Violence, from one angle, looked like mercy from another.”
― A Spark of Light
― A Spark of Light
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