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I'm a reasonable man. Wouldn’t you say there are times the reasonable thing to do after a concerted effort at stalling the self-destruction of what you hold dear and fought for might not be to start a fire and let things bloody well burn?

Any favour is a gamble. You know your quid may not be pro quoed, but that doesn’t mean you’ve no right to irritation if it isn’t.

It’s ugly and it brings one up short, yes. But might not poetry do that? The efficacy of words is wildly overstated, most especially by those who work with them.

If one opens the doors of one’s mind, nowhere’s unhaunted.

—Never underestimate the tenacity of steady-as-she-goes.

That’s the thing with paranoia. It’s a bore and a pain and ridiculous until it’s the only thing that’ll save you.

That expression, what you look like if you see what can’t be thought.

We operate by the superstitions of the dead.

Life is just a prologue to a ghost story.

There's no hard line, Maur learns, between terror and boredom.