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Swamp Thing: The Bronze Age Omnibus

by Len Wein

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“He's got an alibi. People with alibis in the first half of the show are always suspicious.”
― T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

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“Anywhere there's people, there's a possibility of evil, wouldn't you say?”
― T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

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“I don't know why I expected you to read my mind,' I say, when I call back to leave her a message, 'I was just doing what I always do, assuming the world revolves around me.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

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“He looks skinny,” Fritz told Wolfe. Fritz is convinced that without him we would both starve to death in a week.”
― Rex Stout, Murder by the Book

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“Then again, does it really matter if you're just evil, as opposed to over-the-top cartoonishly evil?”
― Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus

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