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Tell your mother the Law of Stolen Flight.''Only flame, and things with wings. All the rest suffer stings.

Jonathan Carroll

Tell your mother the Law of Stolen Flight.''Only flame, and things with wings. All the rest suffer stings.

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About Jonathan Carroll

Jonathan Samuel Carroll (born January 26, 1949) is an American fiction writer primarily known for novels that may be labelled magic realism, slipstream or contemporary fantasy. He has lived in Austria since 1974.