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And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.


“they passed through the wide-open gates into the city whose parents had hired a prostitute as a babysitter and never come home. The”
― Kings of the Wyld
― Kings of the Wyld

“She鈥檚 lived in Plato鈥檚 cave, staring at the shadows on the wall. Now she鈥檚 been turned around to face the fire.”
― The Girl With All the Gifts
― The Girl With All the Gifts

“But life, Clay knew, didn鈥檛 work that way. It wasn鈥檛 a circle; you didn鈥檛 go round and round again. It was an arc, its course as inexorable as the sun鈥檚 trek across the sky, destined at its highest, brightest moment to begin its fall.”
― Kings of the Wyld
― Kings of the Wyld

“There are four simple ways for the observant to tell Mr. Croup and Mr. Vandemar apart: first, Mr. Vandemar is two and a half heads taller than Mr. Croup; second, Mr. Croup has eyes of a faded china blue, while Mr. Vandemar's eyes are brown; third, while Mr. Vandemar fashioned the rings he wears on his right hand out of the skulls of four ravens, Mr. Croup has no obvious jewelery; fourth, Mr. Croup likes words, while Mr. Vandemar is always hungry. Also, they look nothing at all alike.”
― Neverwhere
― Neverwhere

“The once-lauded hero, who had shared wine with Kings (and beds with Queens) was curled up around his pack on a pile of piss-soaked hay.”
― Kings of the Wyld
― Kings of the Wyld
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