Contact Quote by Joanne Harris

“To be closed from everything, and yet to feel, to think...This is the truth of hell, stripped of its gaudy medievalisms. This loss of contact.”

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“For a moment something almost as rare as the sight that they had just witnessed occurred: Loki was totally lost for words.”

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“Work. Like pain, I sensed that this was an experience I would want to avoid as often as possible.”

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And so Nat stood up and joined the group, and followed, and watched, and awaited his chance as the light of Chaos lit the…

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I could do with a bit more excess. From now on I'm going to be immoderate--and volatile--I shall enjoy loud music and lurid poetry.…

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“Better a king in the gutter,' he said, 'than a slave in an emperor's place”

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“Sometimes walking away is best. I should know. It's my specialty.”

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