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That the showdown always came was the central fact of his life
and the axle upon which his own ka revolved.
Susan, the girl at the window. So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives;
they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars, and we see them only from the corners of our eyes, if we see them at all. The idea that they have been waiting there for us rarely if ever crosses our minds. Yet they do wait, and when we have passed, they gather up their bundles of memory and fall in behind,
treading in our footsteps and catching up, li...
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“He came to steal our guile and our caution. With you, he has succeeded.”
there were thirteen glass balls in it—one for each of the Twelve Guardians, and one
representing the nexus-point of the Beams.”
My own da said it wasn’t wise to talk about Thirteen, for it might hear its name called and roll your way. But Black Thirteen doesn’t matter to you three . . . not now, at least. No, it’s the pink one. Maerlyn’s Grapefruit.”
he had discovered, as many others had before him, that only the first cussword is really hard; after that, there’s nothing quite like them for relieving one’s feelings.
Suspense is relatively easy, at least for me; love is hard.
