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“The city hung in my window, flat as a poster, glittering and blinking, but it might just as well not have been there at all, for the good it did me.”

“Everything she said was like a secret voice speaking straight out of my own bones.”

“It was my first big chance, but here I was, sitting back and letting it run through my fingers like so much water.”

“I felt very still and very empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.”