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When you let it get personal, the cost becomes personal too. You’re opening your own heart here. You sure you want to do that?I’d do it for free. For the bullshit you are, and have always been.Disbelief is easy, Kane. It’s faith that takes courage, and character.

Michael Marshall Smith

When you let it get personal, the cost becomes personal too. You’re opening your own heart here. You sure you want to do that?I’d do it for free. For the bullshit you are, and have always been.Disbelief is easy, Kane. It’s faith that takes courage, and character.

Tags: disbelief, faith, unbelief

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About Michael Marshall Smith

Michael Paul Marshall Smith (born 3 May 1965) is an English novelist, screenwriter and short story writer who also writes as Michael Marshall, M. M. Smith and Michael Rutger.