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"I pictured the two of them alone. Perhaps showering together, as Rome and I liked to do. My stomach clenched painfully, amusement forgotten. "Cody, will you take me to the nearest clinic? I need someone to dig the knife out of my back. Lexis might need it again. And the good doctor might want to give me a tetanus shot. I think she bled on me. Stunned silence. I often had that effect."
"Maybe it's only fitting that relationship that started with a lie would end with one."
"Love does not last forever, then?'He asked me the same thing this morning,' she said. 'No, it does not - not love that has been betrayed. One realizes that one has loved a mirage, someone who never really existed. Not that love dies immediately or soon, even then. But it does die and cannot be revived."
"When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal."
"The best fights don't occur between strangers. They occur between friends who trust each other."
"Some bad friends are so crafty in such a way that by the time their mission is reveal, they have already executed portions of it."
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"I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty."
"A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle."
"A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness."
"The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them."
"What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches."
"Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it."
"Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all."
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