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"Stories are webs, interconnected strand to strand, and you follow each story to the center, because the center is the end. Each person is a strand of the story."

"The moment of existence is miraculous."

"All of sudden, this shooting star went by, and all I could think was that they were listening to us somehow."
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"I do not want to credit my life to spells and rituals, cushioning me from the consequences of living."

"It is not easy to find someone your size once the Freshman Fifteen turns to the Sophomore Forty or the Senior Sixty. Even when, through some miracle of self-restraint and bulimia, college girls managed to continue to have feminine bodies, so many of these tacky sluts have never heard word one about what fashion entails."

"When I lay down on my deathbed, I want to know that I have done all I could to be a first rate human, not a third rate pawn of the gods."

"Hades does not have a runny nose. I know this. The entire Greek pantheon no doubt knows this. For some reason, my nose is unaware of this basic fact of mythology."

"I don't think very many people get converted by someone telling them they are terrible. No one I'd want to rub shoulders with in Heaven, anyway."

"[H]er retaliation only made the sin the greater because she could not find words to confess."

"They were once fairies and elves. Now they are creatures from beyond the stars because you no longer believe in anything but humans."

"If you can't feel the touch of the gods on your own, it greatly behooves you to work on that before some lecher tells you his touch is just as good."
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