Dodger
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Dodger hadn’t had a day’s proper schooling. Instead, his life had mostly been spent learning things, which is surprisingly rather different, and he could read a face much better than a newspaper.
“There were tears, of course, but they were for those who were left; those who had gone on did not need them.”
― I Shall Wear Midnight
― I Shall Wear Midnight
“And then, of course, there are the laws of chance. They play a far greater role in police procedure than narrative causality would like to admit.”
― Men at Arms
― Men at Arms
“It’s a wonderful tune and it tells us that one day all of us will die but—and this is the important thing—we are not dead yet.”
― I Shall Wear Midnight
― I Shall Wear Midnight
“Dinner had been waiting since 1985.”
― Pandemonium
― Pandemonium
“I went to sleep with gum in my mouth and now there's gum in my hair and when I got out of bed this morning I tripped on the skateboard and by mistake I dropped my sweater in the sink while the water was running and I could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.”
― Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
― Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
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