Suffering is sometimes cleansing,” said the man. His clothes were casual, but expensive. “It can purify.'“It can also fuck you up,” said Shadow.
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Zum Autor"Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel."
"Since the dawn of humanity, stories have allowed each of us to be many."
"Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent."
"The autumn twilight turned into deep and early night as they walked. Tristran could smell the distant winter on the air--a mixture of night-mist and crisp darkness and the tang of fallen leaves."
"Of course you don't believe in fairies. You're fifteen. You think I believed in fairies at fifteen? Took me until I was at least a hundred and forty. Hundred and fifty, maybe. Anyway, he wasn't a fairy. He was a librarian. All right?"
"Richard began to understand darkness: darkness as something solid and real, so much more than a simple absence of light. He felt it touch his skin, questing, moving, exploring: gliding through his mind. It slipped into his lungs, behind his eyes, into his mouth..."