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Black House (The Talisman, #2)

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Something Estranged: Stories

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The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1)

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“It's fair to say that mortality takes many manifestations, but so does the indomitable nature of the human spirit, and it does so in ways that are sometimes hardly noticeable.”
― James Lee Burke, Wayfaring Stranger

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“Mortality shadowed him like a falcon mantling its wings over dying prey.”
― John Connolly, The Wolf in Winter

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“He imagined the room bathed in blood, himself striding through it, a raven amongst the carcasses. Strutting like any carrion king.”
― Nathan Ballingrud, North American Lake Monsters

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“There was a lot to be said for the discipline of married life. It forced one to learn the art of compromise, and to remedy the flaws in one's nature.”
― John Connolly, The Wolf in Winter

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“He was trying to put loss into words, but loss is absence and will always defy expression.”
― John Connolly, The Wolf in Winter

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