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#1. Stories are the wildest things of all, the monster rumbled. Stories chase and bite and hunt.

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#2. War is a monster ... War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and it grows and grows and grows ... And otherwise normal people become monsters, too.

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#3. It's always nice when two people who don't got no one else find each other as friends.

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#4. He answered the phone to his daughter with a broken but joyous heart, ready to speak with her of astonishment and wonder.

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#5. His grandma wouldn't be here when his father arrived. Which suited everyone.

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#6. His absence is so big it's like he's there.

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#7. I try to avoid describing one interpretation of my books. Of course I have an opinion. I have things I want to say, but I don't ever want to limit anybody, to have them say, 'Oh, he said this, so that's what it's about.' I'm happy people bring their own stuff to it.

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#8. When luck ain't with you, it's against you.

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#9. And I look at her sitting there and she looks across the river and we wait as the dawn fully arrives, each of us knowing.
Each of us knowing the other.

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#10. I was only following orders," the Mayor mocks. "The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time.

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#11. There Are No Ends, Only Changes.

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#12. Always," I say to him. "Every time

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#13. It's love. But it's a different kind,"
"Doesn't make it any less love, though.

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#14. Assuming a thing ain't knowing a thing.

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#15. There's a quiet moment when my Noise fills the room with Manchee, just fills it with him, side to side, barking and barking and needing a poo and barking some more. And dying.

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#16. A sudden, hard wind swirled up around them, and the monster spread its arms out wide, so wide they seemed to reach to opposite horizons, so wide they seemed big enough to encompass the world. I

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#17. I wanted so badly for there to be more. I ached for there to be more than my crappy little life.' He shakes his head. 'And there was more. I just couldn't see it.

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#18. You said we all want there to be more than this! Well, there's always more than this. There's always something you don't know.

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#19. Whatever the world looks like now. That's not always how it's going to look. There's more. There's always more.

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#20. What did you do to help the invisible man?
And he felt the monster's voice again, like it was in his own head.
I made them see, it said.

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#21. Finally, we come to the real thing, the thing that makes men men, the thing were born for, Todd. War.

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#22. Doing what's right should be easy. It shouldn't be just another big mess like everything else.

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#23. It is a true story, the monster said. Many things that are true feel like a cheat.

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#24. Blame is something that is shared and denied in equal measures.

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#25. A peace that blacked yer eye," I say. "A peace that split yer lip.

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#26. Oh, yeah?" Seth says, growing angry. "How did you die again? Freak accident falling down the stairs?

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#27. Bitches,' Mr. Hammar says from atop his horse.
'Your analysis' was not asked for, Seargeant,' says the Mayor.

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#28. He'd known Lily forever. Or for as long as he could remember, which was basically the same thing.

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#29. This voice had a quality to it, a monstrous quality, wild and untamed.

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#30. Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week's end of the world and sometimes you just have to find the extraordinary in your ordinary life.

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#31. There's a bunch od huge churchs clustered together, trying to blend in with all the family-themed restaurants, because salvation is as easy as chicken wings, I guess.

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#32. What happened in the nightmare was something no one else ever needed to know. Conor

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#33. Faith with proof is no faith at all.

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#34. Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.

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#35. The Apothecary was surprised. "You would give up everything you believed in?"
"If it would save my daughters," the parson said. "I'd give up everything.

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#36. No, life didn't always go how you thought it might.
Sometimes it didn't make any sense at all.
You've just got to find a way to live there anyway ...

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#37. It's a trick Ben taught me to help settle my Noise. You close yer eyes and as clearly and calmly as you can you tell yerself who you are, cuz that's what gets lost in all that Noise.

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#38. Connor:I let her go. I could have held on but I let her go.
The Monster:And that is the truth.
Connor:I didn't mean it, though! I didn't mean to let her go! And now it's for real! Now she's going to die and it's my fault!
The Monster:And that is not the truth at all.

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#39. There's more than this, Sethy," Gudmund said. "This sucks beyond belief, but there's more. We just have to get there.

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#40. I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.

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