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The doctor was a private man, engaged in a dark and dangerous business, and could ill afford the prying eyes and gossiping tongue of the servant class.Rick Yancey
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These are the secrets I have kept. This is the trust I never betrayed. But he is dead now and has been for more than forty years, the one who gave me his trust, the one for whom I kept these secrets. The one who saved me .. . and the one who cursed me.Rick Yancey
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...there are more terrifying monstrosities in the world than Anthropophagi. Monstrosities who, with a smile and a comforting pat on the head, are willing to sacrifice a child upon the altar of their own overweening ambition and pride.Rick Yancey
4
That's a stupid question, ' said Malachi. 'Because he didn't warn him. He didn't warn anyone.'' No, it's a philosophical question, ' Kearns corrected him. 'Which makes it useless, not stupid.Rick Yancey
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I always assumed it owed more to the fact that he didn't like me.Rick Yancey
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They say no one knows the Bible better than the devil.Rick Yancey
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I do not mean to mock or ridicule your life's work, for in one way at least it mimics my own: We have dedicated our lives to the pursuit of phantoms. The difference is the nature of those phantoms. Mine exist between other men's ears; yours live solely between your own.Rick Yancey
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Self-pity is egotism undiluted, after all–self-centeredness in its purest form.Rick Yancey
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Yes, my dear child, monsters are real. I happen to have one hanging in my basement.Rick Yancey