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I watched the stars and thought of other lives.

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The last of the cherry blossom. On the tree, itturns ever more perfect. And when it’s perfect, it falls. And then of course once it hits theground it ...more

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I would agree with your statement that many of my protagonists are outsiders. I wonder if we all are, and even people who don't think they are, and th...more

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A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed consultant giving bad news in a calm voice.

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I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.

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Patience's design flaw became obvious for the first time in my life: the outcome is decided not during the course of play but when the cards are shuff...more

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Do," said Louisa finally, "whatever you can't not do.

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The lovelorn, the cry-for-helpers, all mawkish tragedians who give suicide a bad name are the idiots who rush it, like amateur conductors. .A true sui...more

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Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an' tho' a cloud's shape nor hue nor size don't stay the same, it's still a cloud an' so is a soul. Who can ...more

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But, Henry, this is wicked!' But, Adam, the world is wicked. Maoris prey on Moriori, Whites prey on darker-hued cousins, fleas prey on mice, cats prey...more

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The first of ‘Goose’s Two Laws of Survival.’ It runs thus, ‘The weak are meat the strong do eat.’ ” ... Henry grinned in the dark & cleared his throat...more

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Surgeons are a singular brotherhood, Adam. To us, people aren't sacred beings crafted in the Almighty's image, no, people are joints of meat; diseased...more

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If you’re in your life, chance. Viewed from the outside, like a book you’re reading, it’s fate all the way.

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Life’s more science-fictiony by the day.

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One's ribs shouldn't be prison bars.