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Beauty and ugliness disappear equally under the wrinkles of age; one is lost in them the other hidden


Jonathan Petit Senn

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JONATHAN SWIFT Your language indicates──and limits──what you think.
JONATHAN PRICE Freedom is an illusion. It always comes at a price. Thinking
JONATHAN STROUD The stories that bind us, Halli. The stories we live by, that dictate what we do and where we go. Th...
JONATHAN STROUD Looks?” the skull said. “Who cares about that? It’s superficial. Outward appearance doesn’t ...
JONATHAN STROUD Oh, we'll suffer in silence. You've given us plenty of practice at that.
JONATHAN STROUD Because you're unique . You shine like a beacon, attracting the attention of all dark things." It ch...
JONATHAN STROUD Nothing could keep me from you. Nothing in life or Death...
JONATHAN STROUD I'ts how I want to remember him, the way he was that night: with horrors up ahead and horrors at our...
JONATHAN STROUD Well, I make that one murder victim, one police interrogation and one conversation with a ghost,” ...
JONATHAN STROUD Death is fugitive; even when you're watching for it, the actual instant somehow slips between your f...
JONATHAN STROUD Well, when you're being held at gunpoint by a geriatric madman in a metal skirt, you've kind of hit ...
JONATHAN STROUD God rest her soul and may she never walk at night
JONATHAN STROUD A dozen more questions occurred to me. Not to mention twenty-two possible solutions to each one, six...
JONATHAN STROUD One magician demanded I show him an image of the love of his life. I rustled up a mirror.
JONATHAN STROUD According to some, heroic deaths are admirable things. I've never been convinced by this argument, m...
JONATHAN STROUD Zealots: Wild eyed persons afflicted with incurable certainty about the workings of the world, a cer...
JONATHAN STROUD Then again, Solomon was human. And that meant he was flawed (Go on, take a look at yourself in the m...
JONATHAN STROUD Besides, if you're going to die horribly, you might as well do it with style.
JONATHAN STROUD More ghosts have been created in bedrooms than anywhere else.
JONATHAN STROUD Strange how close the darkness is, even when things seem brightest. Even in the glare of a summer no...
JONATHAN STROUD Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
JONATHAN SWIFT