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Discretion came hard to Lucas, who tended to think slowly and aloud, but it was time to try a little harder.
Damascus Gate (1998)
And that was it, he thought. It was all a series of rooms one never found one's way out of. You had to be content with that, or die, or go completely crazy.
Damascus Gate (1998)
Everyone loses everything in the end.
Damascus Gate (1998)
"Don't go alone to lonely places."
Damascus Gate (1998)
"Over and over our plans foundered on human nature. On the mediocrity of human nature that betrays its better self, its best ideals, that is unworthy of itself everywhere.
"Shocking, the mediocrity of everything - is it not?"
Damascus Gate (1998)
He kept not looking at her. This, Sonia had come to realize, usually meant something, though it was often difficult to decide what. Shyness, morbid hypersensitivity and homicidal racism could all assume the same aspect.
Damascus Gate (1998)
One wore a brown army-style sweater, extensively darned and full of holes. The darning was old and unraveling; it looked as if someone had once cared enough to repair his sweaters and then just given up.
Damascus Gate (1998)