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“I live my own life and nurse my own wounds. It's not the best way to live. But it's the way I am.”
― Middlesex
― Middlesex

“If Baz thinks I’m ever letting him go, he’s wrong. I like him like this. Under my thumb. Under my hands. Not off plotting and scheming and talking to vampires.
I’ve got you now, I think. I’ve finally got you where I want you.”
― Carry On
I’ve got you now, I think. I’ve finally got you where I want you.”
― Carry On

“The verdict got both the fish and me off the hook.”
― Death Leaves a Shadow
― Death Leaves a Shadow

“His learning to speak the toubob tongue, he realized, had played a big part in it. In this everyday talking, he seldom even thought of Mandinka words any more, excepting those few that for some reason his mind still clung to. Indeed, by now—Kunta grimly faced it—he even thought in the toubob tongue. In countless things he did as well as said and thought, his Mandinka ways had slowly been replaced by those of the blacks he had been among. The only thing in which he felt he could take some small pride was that in twenty rains he had never touched the meat of the swine.”
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