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Marisol does a silly dance with Balder and the screw, one in each hand, so that nobody gets the idea that she takes tins — or anything else, for that matter — seriously. And just like that, something in the cosmos shifts. A butterfly flaps its wings in South America. Snow falls in Chicago. You give an idiot a stupid magic screw and it turns out to be a necessary part after all.

— Libba Bray Going Bovine (2009)

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People always think they know other people, but they don’t. Not really.

Going Bovine (2009)

Balder holds up a completely blank rune. Wyrd. The beginning and the end. Fate.
I don't know what that means, but it's not doing anything to uncreep me.

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Travel opens your mind as few other things do. It is its own form of hypnotism, and I am forever under its spell.”

Here is our favorite equation: Us plus Them equals All of Us. It is very simple math. Try it sometime.

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The dark does not weep for itself because there is no light. Rather, it accepts that it is the dark. It is said that even the gods must die." He winks. "But not without one hell of a fight.”

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