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“A magician is strong because he feels the pain between what the world is and what he would make of it.”

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“It was about damn time something happened.”

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“He was going to sign the papers and he was going to be a motherfucking magician.”

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“Being brave was easy when you would rather die than give up. Fatigue meant nothing when you actually wanted to suffer.”

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As a writer I'm more drawn to villains who are just slightly mad.

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“He wasn't in a safe little story where wrongs were automatically righted; he was still in the real world, where bad bitter things happened…

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By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usually because there was something…

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About as close you can get to the perfect cerebral thriller: searingly smart, ridiculously funny, and fast as hell... I defy anybody to read…

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“It's true," Eliot said. "Statistically, historically, and however else you want to look at it, you are almost never right. A monkey making life…

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“God, I hope we don’t have to use that,” was all he said out loud. “Oh, come on, Quentina. We’re not looking for trouble.…

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I mean, when you're tired of book reviews, you're tired of life.

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When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone twice your size who wants to pound you into the earth - it feels as if you're being injected with darkness. It's like black water as cold as ice settling in your body where your blood…

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Then come to realize that you're making mountains out of molehills. Realize how petty you've become. Sure, it may feel like you can't get a grip on this town. It may seem that every time someone offers you a hand up, they just let go and you slip further down. But you must stop being so pessimistic, Hannah, and learn…

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