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“Having a physical reaction to a lack of book is not unusual.”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
“The king ordered that the saint be placed in the olive press until his flesh was torn to pieces and he died. They then threw him out of the city, but the Lord Jesus gathered the pieces together and brought him back to life, and he went back into the city. —The Story of St. George, the Great Martyr”
― Frankenstein in Baghdad
― Frankenstein in Baghdad
“Not all stories speak to all listeners, but all listeners can find a story that does, somewhere, sometime. In one form or another.”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
“Life holds a sanctity for them we can scarcely begin to imagine; it therefore struck them as absurd that someone would choose to end it.”
― Washington Black
― Washington Black
“It was like a voyage, only the other way round. So that instead of the waiting and hoping to sight land, you were moving over land in the first place, all impatient, all ready for that first glimpse. The seaside. The sea.”
― Last Orders
― Last Orders
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