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She hissed, right there behind my ear, and I had the horrible idea she was spitting maggots into my hair. Why maggots…

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To my embarrassment, I was crying again. Real girl tears for the second time, these ones born out of frustration. That didn't…

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start with one true thing

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“Find anything about the Blade?” Billy let out an explosive sigh and creaked back in his chair, hands folded behind his head.…

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“Desert heat or not, the idea that my younger self was facing her last moments was a bucket of cold water in…

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“Billy, I can’t even pick my nose without using a finger.” Sometimes my mouth should stop and consult my brain before it…

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“it took Coyote a very long time indeed to show up, or that he looked distracted when he did. How a dog…

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“The dancers were whisked away to the hospital suffering from severe electrolyte imbalances, which my mind insisted on processing as “severe acolyte…

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“I opened my eyes to find Gary and my mother sitting cross-legged up against a half-fallen wall, both of them laughing so…

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friends don't threaten friends' distributor caps

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“I could kidnap your mother,” he offered. “If you need the phone records explained.”

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“He lets me fly.”

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“Alban’s eyes widened, palpable shock rolling off him. “Daisani’s assistant? That Vanessa Gray?” “That one.” Alban whistled, a long high sound of…

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One forgets the fear of heights when one cannot fall

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She had a body that even I coveted in a strictly Platonic sense.

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“I suppose I knew on an intellectual level that graves weren't especially made for getting out of. I mean, you start with…

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“I told myself that, too. It turned out myself was a skeptical bitch and didn’t believe me.”

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“I’m a lawyer. I meet people every day who are on the surface considerably worse than you are. You, Janx, Alban, you’re…

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“I swear on Annie’s grave,” Gary repeated to Mel, “this ain’t my fault. They were like this when I picked ’em up…

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“Since I didn't have any world-class fencing skills, I kicked Cernunnos in the nuts again. I didn't have to know how to…

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“...we lay there in the dark for a split second before the beast galumphed toward us. Meabh, always quick with a sword,…

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“It wasn't that I didn't feel like sharing. Mostly I just figured they couldn't do anything about it, so there was no…

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Logic was puny in the face of my wrath. Logic was puny and magic was mighty: I had just gotten rebirthed, refilled…

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“Disaster’s good for the oligarchy. Ha,” Billy said to my goggle-eyes. “Fair’s fair. You pull out ‘exsanguinate,’ I pull out ‘oligarchy.’” “I’m…

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