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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.Ben Marcus
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My intention had not been to find her, for I had been busy being lonely with someone else.Ben Marcus
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A self needed to spill out sometimes, a body should show evidence of what the hell went on inside it.Ben Marcus
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Perhaps they didn't know they were at sea. Was there a certain percentage of people at sea who lacked the knowledge that they were at sea?Ben Marcus
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Like most doctors, the fanciest ones, he seemed offensively healthy, as if he kept the real secret of vitality to himself. He would live forever and people would crumble and die around him. You were supposed to feel like death after seeing him, in terms of your complexion, your posture, your whole body. If necessary, this doctor would eat you to survive.Ben Marcus
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Franklin was a thin, pink person who was either a genius or, well, not one. Chances weren't.Ben Marcus
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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.Ben Marcus