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But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.Rick Yancey
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Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end.Rick Yancey
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We have just discovered our dear colleague butchered in a hotel room, and you wish to discuss literature?Rick Yancey
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I confessed I did not have an opinion; I was only thirteen, and this was my very first dismemberment.Rick Yancey
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She hated him and loved him, longed for him and loathed him, and cursed herself for feeling anything at allRick Yancey
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And John Kearns whispered into my ear: "Do you see it now? *You* are the nest. *You* are the hatchling. *You* are the chrysalis. *You* are the progeny. *You* are the rot that falls from the stars. All of us--you and I and poor, dear Pellinore. Behold the face of the magnificum, child. And despair." Though I was sickened by the sight, I looked. In the bower of the beast at the top of the world, I beheld the face of the magnificum, and I did not turn away.Rick Yancey
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Beside me the monstrumologist murmured, "I believe I am in hell, therefore I am there.Rick Yancey
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Ah. And then you kill him."" No, " Arkwright replied patiently. "We are British. We avoid murder if we can help it.{...}Rick Yancey
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I walked until the water lapped against my chest, and then I kept walking until it kissed the underside of my jaw. I was surprised how cold it was. I closed my eyes and ducked beneath the surface. Thee was the wind and the clouds and the pure pool and the boy beneath its unsettled surface, and the blood, the boy's and monster's, defiling the pool.Rick Yancey