“You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me that all this ultraviolence and killing is wrong, wrong, and terribly wrong. I've learned me lesson, sir. I've seen now what I've never seen before. I'm cured! Praise Bog! I'm cured!
I was cured alright.”
― Clockwork Orange
I was cured alright.”
― Clockwork Orange
“He can't really love anyone, you know, and in the end such people are always alone, no matter how much other people once loved them.”
― The Swan Thieves
― The Swan Thieves
“...[Emilio] felt once more the strangely visceral thrill of trying to disprove a hypothesis he suspected was robust.”
― Children of God
― Children of God
“No, the treasure, if that is the word, cannot be seen. It lies beneath this land. The Dewar is looking to things that lie beneath us in the province of Banora.”
― White Light Red Fire
― White Light Red Fire
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