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The present is a rope stretched over the past. The secret to walking it is, you never look down. Not for anyone, not even family. The secret is to pretend you can’t hear the voices of the people who have fallen down there in the dark.

— Sean Stewart Perfect Circle (2004)

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Ghosts don’t do things to you. Ghosts make you do unspeakable things to yourself.

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I thought about how the sound of burning and the sound of running water are almost the same.

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