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But it was too late. He’d met the Murder Dolls’ beady, malevolent eyes, so they knew him now, and they knew where he lived.
“I carried [Rudy] softly through the broken street...with him I tried a little harder [at comforting]. I watched the contents of his soul for a moment and saw a black-painted boy calling the name Jesse Owens as he ran through an imaginary tape. I saw him hip-deep in some icy water, chasing a book, and I saw a boy lying in bed, imagining how a kiss would taste from his glorious next-door neighbor. He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It's his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.”
― The Book Thief
― The Book Thief
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― A Dance with Dragons
― A Dance with Dragons
“The sweetness of love is short-lived, but the pain endures.”
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“Tis because we be on a blighted star, and not a sound one, isn't it Tess?”
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
“It is the hour of pearl—the interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself.”
― Cannery Row
― Cannery Row
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