And yet, it was still a performance. Odin and I both knew it. It was a kind of play, a dream of how things might have been if he and I had been capable of trusting each other for a change. And so we hunted, and sang, and laughed, and told heavily edited stories of the good old days, while each of us watched the other and wondered when the knife would fall. Joanne Harris
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  1. Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.

  2. I believe that being happy is the only important thing. Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or torturous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.

  3. No point carrying useless ballast. It won't change a thing.

  4. The dead know everything but they don't give a damn.

  5. I could do with a bit more excess. From now on I'm going to be immoderate--and volatile-- I shall enjoy loud music and lurid poetry. I shall be rampant.

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