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You could look at birds all your life without ever knowing what was a sparrow and what was a blackbird, but we all know a swan when we see it.
“Mm,” said Peace-not-War. “Well. That’s helpful. We’ll put an APB out on the Gingerbread Man. I’m not hopeful it’ll do us much good, though. Word on the street is you can’t catch him.”
“My first wife was a difficult woman. Hard to satisfy. Most redheads are.
Men, she thought, were one of the world’s few sure comforts, like a fire on a cold October night, like cocoa, like broken-in slippers. Their clumsy affections, their bristly faces, and their willingness to do what needed to be done—cook an omelet, change lightbulbs, make with hugging—sometimes almost made being a woman fun.
He believed in his own decency with all his heart. So it was with every true monster, Vic supposed.
Time softened, ran with the sweet drag of syrup trickling down the side of a bottle.