“A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.”
― Guards! Guards!
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“And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“But fate, as Merlin always taught us, is inexorable. Life is a jest of the Gods, Merlin liked to claim, and there is no justice. You must learn to laugh, he once told me, or else you'll just weep yourself to death.”
― The Winter King
― The Winter King
“If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.”
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― Guards! Guards!
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