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If you expect the worse, you're only denying someone a chance to be betterSangu Mandanna
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You, ” he says, before the door closes all the way. “I often dream of you.Sangu Mandanna
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But maybe that's what the dead do. They stay. They linger. Benign and sweet and painful. They don't need us. They echo all by themselves.Sangu Mandanna
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Come on, " I say, "let's go be star-crossed lovers and court disaster.Sangu Mandanna
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He can see what move I'm planning to make in chess and counters before I can do it. He always knows who the killer is in a detective story. I think he could make a career out of detecting, but he wants to write plays for theater. Maybe he could be a Shakespeare instead of a Sherlock. He could be anything. Anything he wants to be.Sangu Mandanna
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I’d rather spend the rest of my life without ever seeing you again, ” he says, “than watch them destroy you because of me.Sangu Mandanna
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If Sean's voice is layers of wood, and Mina Ma's is the voice a copper pot, then Mathew Mercer's is the voice of a wild animal. I suddenly think of a movie Ammara and I loved when we were little, and I think of Scar, the lion who murdered his brother to become king. That kind of voice.Sangu Mandanna
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I wished at that moment that the Wests had killed me, it would have been a merciful release from the hell that DC Smith was putting me through. This barrage of questions by DC Smith and his heavy-handedness into this inquiry and his bullying barrack-room interrogation style of interviewing had left me feeling shamed.Stephen Richards