"What are you?" I whispered. He shrugged again.……" — David Almond
"What are you?" I whispered. He shrugged again. "Something," he said. "Something like you, something like a beast, something like a bird, something like an angel." He laughed. "Something like that."
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29 Quotes by David Almond
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