"You and your sister are very dear to each other. To show your regard, you give each other lovely bouquets of lies."

Deception, Lies, Family, Love

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"You and your sister are very dear to each other. To show your regard, you give each other lovely bouquets of lies."

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"They wore their strange beauty like war paint."

Aesthetics

"He must have been handsome when he was alive and was handsome still, although made monstrous by his pallor and her awareness of what he was. His mouth looked soft, his cheekbones as sharp as blades, and his jaw curved, giving him an off-kilter beauty. His black hair a mad forest of dirty curls."

Beauty

"I wonder about death, I who may never know it. It looks much like ecstacy, the way they open their mouths as they drown, the way their fingers dig into your skin. Their eyes are wide and startled and they trash in your hands as though with an excess of passion."

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"Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks."

Humor

"Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty."

Imperfection

"I survive at the edge of friends circles."

Psychology

"The most important thing for any con artist is never to think like a mark. Marks think they can get something for nothing. Marks think they can get what they don't deserve and could never deserve. Marks are stupid and pathetic and sad. Marks think they're going to go home one night and have the girl they've loved since they were a kid suddenly love them back. Marks forget that whenever something's too good to be true, that's because it's a con."

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