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“The buckets emptied quickly, and men from different squads took turns bringing water from the gully that lay towards the city, where, in the feeble shade of emaciated mulberries, a muddy stream lived out its last days in the diabolical heat.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

tags: desert, heat, water

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“Somewhere, beyond the ragged edge of night, light bleeds into this world.”
― Olivia Hawker, The Ragged Edge of Night

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“The ‘problem’ with having a conscience is you expect other people to have one too, so you analyse and evaluate their behaviour according to your own standards. But true sociopaths have no understanding why we all worry about rules or laws . . . or the lives and feelings of others.”
― Teresa Driscoll, The Friend

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“How quickly he fell; how soon it was over.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

tags: death, regret, surprise

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“By noon, Pino was sitting on the steps of La Scala where he could see the front of the Hotel Regina and the Daimler parked nearby. He was numb with grief. Gazing across the street at the statue of the great Leonardo and listening to the chatter of citizens who hurried past, he wanted to cry again. Everyone was talking about the atrocity.”
― Mark T. Sullivan, Beneath a Scarlet Sky

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