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"By now I'd read enough to know what irony meant but not what a devious bastard it is."

"It's taken all my life to learn protection is the promise you can't make. It sounds absolute, and you mean it and believe it, but that vow is provisional and makeshift and no god ever lived who could keep it half the time."

“There used to be a wind gauge bolted to the fire station, but it blew off into the lake.”

“As enemies go, despair has every ounce of my respect.”

“… it began to resemble what I once imagined church might be like, a church you could bear, where people laughed and enjoyed each other and did not care if they were right all the time or if other people were wrong.”

“It’s called a lake because it is not salt, but this corpus is a fearsome sea and if you live in its reach you should know at all times what it’s up to.”