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"If she allowed herself to give in to the whole sadness of it, she'd never ever be able to operate like a normal person again."
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"How does it happen that a writer who's not even very good - and I can say that, I've read four or five of his books - gets to be in charge of the world's destiny? Or of the entire universe's?"If he's not very good, why didn't you stop at one?"Mrs. Tassenbaum smiled. "TouchA©. He is readable, I'll give him that - tells a good story..."
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"He just watched the way Finnikin's hands rested on Evanjalin's neck and he rubbed his thumb along her jaw and the way his tongue seemed to disappear inside her mouth as if he needed a part of her to breathe himself."
"Are you an idiot, or an idiot?' Gargarin hissed.'The first one. I really resent being called the second."
"Lucian was beginning to get used to hearing her small observations at night. More than anything, he realized he liked her voice in the dark. It made him feel less lonely."
"And at that moment Jude thought something that he would never forgive himself for.He wished that he had never met any of them."
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