Thomas's mistake, like most of the behavior he leaked into the world, had been avoidable: to join another human being in a situation that virtually demanded unscripted, spontaneous conversation, and thus to risk total moral and emotional dissolution. Death by conversation, and all that.
I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.
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Andrew Solomon
Stairs, " Valkyrie said, disappointed." Not just ordinary stairs, " Skulduggery told her as he led the way down. "Magic stairs."" Really?"" Oh, yes." She followed him into the darkness. "How are they magic?"" They just are."" In what way?"" In a magicky way." She...
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Derek Landy
What ho! " I said." What ho! " said Motty."What ho! What ho! "" What ho! What ho! What ho! " After that it seemed rather difficult to go on with the conversation.
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P.g. Wodehouse
Sometimes when it looks like I'm deep in thought I'm just trying not to have a conversation with people.
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Pete Wentz
Corrival looked around. 'So is this it? Is everyone here? Erskine, maybe you should start the ball rolling. I have places to go and things to do.'' Me?' Ravel asked. 'Why do I have to start it? You're the most respected mage here. You start...
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Derek Landy
More Quotes By Ben Marcus
Until the notion of Helmet-Assisted Life catches on with more people, you may be seen as a threat if you wear a helmet during moments of intimacy. Yet it might also be true that relaxed intimacy cannot occur unless the head is fully protected.
When a man modifies or adorns a woman's name, or dispatches an endearment into her vicinity, he is attempting at once to alter and deny her, to dilute the privacy of the category she has inherited and to require that she respond as someone quite...
Suspense left my life a long time ago, now it has returned. I do not care for it.
What treaty is it that finally separates those two territories, the hard resolve of our exteriors and the terrible disaster on our insides?
It was hard not to realize what kind of kid his parents wished they'd had, and when he thought about that kind of kid it was tempting for Paul to want to track, hunt, and eat the little thing.
