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"A voice from behind him in the shadows, said, very quietly, 'You have never disappointed me.'
Shadow did not turn. 'That's weird,' he said, 'I disappointed myself all the way. Every time.'"
p472

"I believe in a woman's right to choose, a baby's right to live, that while all human life is sacred there's nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust the legal system." p 349

"The important thing to understand about American history, wrote Mr. Ibis in his leather-bound journal, is that it is fictional, a charcoal-sketched simplicity for the children, or the easily bored. For the most part it is uninspected, unimagined, unthought, a representation of the thing, and not the thing itself."

I almost stop at times because I so despise the characters. Bravo to the author because nothing would be more boring then middling characters.

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