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I might PUNCH you instead and trust that you won't punch me back because of my endearing smallness. It would be like punching a child. (Or a badger.)

And none of us became children to be orphans.

Seriously?" Zuzana muttered. "As if he knows. Like he didn't tell the last twenty-five reporters because he was saving this excellent secret knowledge just for her?

Yeah, buddy, that's a hand. You've got two of those bad boys. Good for you.

If there is a sphere where 'angels' dwell, is it a matter of semantics, whether we choose to call it Heaven?

One might suppose you had a death wish." "No." He was solemn. "Never that. A life wish, if anything. For a different sort of life.

One beat followed the sound, a single beat of stillness, and then chaos leapt in.

Liraz's smile was like the love child of a shark and a scimitar.

Así de fácil? ¿Les cuento que no soy humana y ustedes responden que ajá lo que sea? - Lo siento, pero creo que has neutralizado nuestra capacidad de sorpresa. Deberías haber empezado por eso y luego decirnos que resucitas a los muertos.

with the staring lack of empathy that belongs to murderers and small children.

and her voice was mournful and sweet and drenched in pain, like an otherworldly fado.

That was Kaz: carnal and elegant. And deceitful. And narcissistic. And, honestly, kind of dumb.

To her, the human form — plain as it was, and not spliced together with other species — was a missed opportunity.

Puzzlement drew a crease in his brow, like he was divining a mystery. Like she was his mystery.

His books were spilled onto the floor, their pages creased beneath them like the broken wings of birds

A man once said, 'All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.' Mark Twain, you know. He had a fine mustache. Men of wisdom so often do.

He was inside that realm of mind, the private universe, the infinite sphere of himself where he went to work magic.

The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.

In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from binding.

Clap an extinguisher on your irony, if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.

Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

All criticism hurts me. I'm so in the wrong business.

Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana.

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