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“I have always felt,” he said, “that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the final sanctuary of the terminally inept.”
― Neverwhere
― Neverwhere
“Intelligence is not a competition," she said. "There is plenty to go around, and there are many ways it can be demonstrated.”
― The Enchantress Returns
― The Enchantress Returns
“The marquis de Carabas looked up at him. His eyes were very white in the moonlight. And he whispered, "What's it like being dead? It's very cold, my friend. Very dark, and very cold.”
― Neverwhere
― Neverwhere
“When angels go bad, Richard, they go worse than anyone. Remember, Lucifer used to be an angel.”
― Neverwhere
― Neverwhere
“Richard had met Jessica in France, on a weekend trip to Paris two years earlier; had in fact discovered her in the Louvre, trying to find the group of his office friends who had organized the trip. Staring up at an immense sculpture, he had stepped backwards into Jessica, who was admiring an extremely large and historically important diamond. He tried to apologize to her in French, which he did not speak, gave up, and began to apologize in English, then tried to apologize in French for having to apologize in English, until he noticed that Jessica was about as English as it was possible for any one person to be.”
― Neverwhere
― Neverwhere
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