The steam trains crossed the country, the gleaming tracks clumsy sutures across wounded miles of stolen land.
Agent Jones switched to the big screen and a grainy video of MoMo sitting at his enormous desk, a swivel-hipped Elvis clock ticking behind his bewigged head. 'Death to the capitalist pigs! Death to yo...
People want to be safe, not free.
Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villians... And magic itself is neither good nor bad; it is intent that makes it either.
People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept.
This is how it is now. There is strength in acceptance, Ling. Your legs have been taken from you. But how you choose to live with that has not.
Evie wanted to cry. From fear. From exhaustion, yes. But mostly from the cruel uselessness, the damned stupid arbitrariness of it all.
Mawah meenon ne le plus poohlala, I say with an affected bow.
We create the illusions we need to go on. And one day, when they no longer dazzle or comfort, we tear them down, brick by glittering brick, until we are left with nothing but the bright light of hones...
You don't notice the light without a bit of shadow.
How do you invent a religion? Evie asked. Will looked over the top of his spectacles. You say, ‘God told me the following,’ and then wait for people to sign up.
I can see those… hideous beasts coming out of the burning walls. I hear Naughty John telling me—warning me—about my own brother! He knew about James, Sam. When I stand still, I see all of it. So I don...
The land is old, the land is vast, he has no future, he has no past, his coat is sewn with many woes, he'll bring the dead, the King of Crows.
For dreams, too, are ghosts, desires chased in sleep, gone by morning. The longing of dreams draws the dead, and this city holds many dreams.
With a satisfied groan, Sam leaned back against his chair, his hands on his protruding gut. Ling. How would your mother feel about a Jewish son-in-law?
Yeah, but what about the ritual of getting your ticket and your snacks, finding the perfect seat, I countered. All those strangers watching the movie with you, they change how you see it, you know? Yo...
I know it. I know I shall make beastly mistakes, Father-The world does not forgive mistakes so quickly, my girl. He sounds bitter and sad.If the world will not forgive me, I say softly, I shall have t...
I shan't ever understand your willingness to lie down and die, Felicity bars. If you won't at least try to fight, I have no sympathy for you.
It's as if I've inherited a skin I cannot quite fit, and so I walk about constantly pulling and and tugging, pinning and pruning, trying desperately to fill it out, hoping that no one will look at me...
Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains.
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