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The biggest life change any man would ever experience was the ending of it.

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These were the tales that echoed in the head long after the books that contained them were cast aside.

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There are some truths so terrible that they should not be spoken aloud, so appalling that even to acknowledge them is to risk sacrificing a crucial pa...more

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And Nurd, who had never had a mother and father, and who had never loved or been loved, marvelled at the ways in which feeling so wonderful could also...more

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But don't they say that all is fair in love and war? I heard that somewhere.""'They?' Who are 'they?'""I don't know. Just people.""That's what the vic...more

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Real life was curious enough without the embellishments of fiction.

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After all, no relationship could function or survive under the burden of total honesty.

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Perhaps it's true that all men love their fathers, no matter how terrible the things they do to their sons: there is a part of us that remains forever...more

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It has always seemed to me that there are two types of people in this world: those rendered impotent by the sheer weight of evil it contains, and who ...more

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Because to ignore what had happened in the recent and distant pasts, to turn away and look elsewhere because it was easier to do so, was to be an acco...more

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If cats could count, they’d start getting nervous around the time they put paid to their fifth life.