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“When I see gurgling retarded children (that's God's doing, by the way, not mine) happily styling their hair with their own stinking mards, I think of Adam in those pre-marital days. I know he's your great-to-the-nth-degree-granddad and all - but I'm afraid he was rather an imbecile.”
― Glen Duncan, I, Lucifer

“Some secrets, she thought, were better told; some were better left the burden of the carrier, that they might not cause pain to others.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

“Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.”
― Sophocles

“Sometimes one must choose whether to be kind or honorable," he said. "Sometimes one cannot be both.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess