"So he wasn’t dead. That was probably supposed to be a good thing."

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“Cruelty walked the Warrens holding hands with poverty and rage.”

“Kylar woke two hours before dawn and briefly wondered if death would be too high a price to pay for a full night’s sleep.”

““That pain you feel,” Master Blint said almost gently, “is the pain of abandoning a delusion. The delusion is meaning, Kylar. There is no higher purpose. There are no gods. No arbiters of right and wrong. I don’t ask you to like reality. I only ask you to be strong enough to face it. There is nothing beyond this.”

“Like many who have no reason for pride, that very lack of reason for it made me the prouder. But certain realities have a way of making themselves felt, and debt is one of them.”

“A solicitor is a man who does worse things within the law than most crooks do outside it.”

“Hope is the lies we tell ourselves about the future.”

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