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The abbot cleared his throat. "You are all very stupid people," he told them graciously, "and you do not know anything at all.

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CHORONZON "I am anti-life, the beast of judgement. I am the dark at the end of everything. The end of universes, Gods, worlds... of everything. And wh...more

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He was walking into Faerie, in search of a fallen star, with no idea how he would find the star, nor how to keep himself safe and whole as he tried. H...more

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There was a moment of hesitation, and then her mouth opened against his, and her tongue slid into his mouth, and he was, under the strange stars, utte...more

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It was sometimes said that the grey-and-black mountain range which ran like a spine north to south down that part of Faerie had once been a giant, who...more

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Television and cinema were all very well, but these stories happened to other people. The stories I found in books happened inside my head. I was, in ...more

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I wanted stories, and I wanted them always, and I wanted the experience that only fiction could give me: I wanted to be inside them.

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This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be un...more

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Fictions are merely frozen dreams, linked images with some semblance of structure. They are not to be trusted, no more than the people who create them...more

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Silas consumed only one food, and it was not bananas.

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Each of the dancers took a partner, the living with the dead, each to each. Bod reached out his hand and found himself touching fingers with, and gazi...more

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You’re as plain as the nose on your face,” said Mr. Pennyworth. “And your nose is remarkably obvious. As is the rest of your face, young man. As are y...more

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You aren't allowed out of the graveyard -it's aren't, by the way, not amn't, not these days-because it's only in the graveyard that we can keep you sa...more

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Have you ever been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone c...more

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Can't say I've ever been too fond of beginnings, myself. Messy little things. Give me a good ending anytime. You know where you are with an ending.