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"Salzburg... is a mountain town with a rushing river running right through the center, everything in the rain various shades of green and brown."
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"Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic."

"She said this in the same way you might say Fields of Punishment or Hades's gym shorts."

"She got a long pointed nose and big fleshy mouth. Lips look like black plum. Eyes big, glossy. Feverish. And mean. Like, sick as she is, if a snake cross her path, she kill it."

"She smelled of talcum powder and Big Red."

"A Vampire!" I stammered. Then I noticed her legs. Below the cheerleader skirt, her left leg was brown and shaggy with a donkey's hoof. Her right leg was shaped like a human leg was it was made of bronze. "Uhh, a vampire with-""Don't mention the legs!" Tammi snapped. "It's rude to make fun."

"Salzburg... is a mountain town with a rushing river running right through the center, everything in the rain various shades of green and brown."
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"One of the saddest realities is that we never know when our lives are at their peak. Only after it is over and we have some kind of perspective do we realize how good we had it a day, a month, five years ago."

"I have never heard anyone say This is it. I know right now is the high point of my life. It will never get any better. Only in retrospect do we recognize the best times and of course then it is too late."

"In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic."

"People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both."

"Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one."

"It's always fun to walk down the street with or behind a really beautiful woman, for no reason other than to see how the world reacts to them."

"Most men, no matter how well or badly dressed, carry overstuffed, beat up wallets that should have been replaced years ago. Why is that? Every time I see a guy take out a wallet anywhere, it looks like a piece of old melted chocolate cake-with strings."

"Even the handsomest men do not have the same momentary effect on the world as a truly beautiful woman does."
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