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"In this overlong account of
my adventures, I have said often that I forget nothing; but I
have forgotten much of that, because I was so exhausted
that I moved as though in sleep."


bro is lying AGAIN

It left him blackened and consumed. For a moment, I think,
he still lived; his head jerked back and his arms were flung
wide. There was a puff of smoke, carried away at once by
the wind.

“Now I was not sure whether I had hated him because he lied, or hated lying because he did it.”

“They're like us, aren't they? The big wolf and the little wolf. We're big Severian and little Severian." 

“The dog, which must have crawled beneath the floor when the alzabo came (I cannot say I blame him, but Triskele would not have done that)”

Severian a funny guy man

“Agia, I know about Hethor.”


NOOO

“Just as when I had first left the Citadel I had pulled up my hood so that the passersby might not observe my smiles, so now I hid my face to conceal the tears running down my cheeks.”

“You think whatever is wrong with you is contagious, then?" 

She laughed again. “Yes, but you have it already. You caught it from your mother. Death.”