More from Chapter 52
- Dad’s voice was a midnight school, teaching deep fathom hours, and the subject was life.
- His wife smiled in her sleep. Why? She's immortal. She has a son.
- If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
- “I know it. I know everything.” She waited a moment. “What do you know?” “No use making more people. People die.” His voice was very calm and quiet and almost sad. “That’s everything.”
- Mr. Dark nodded, pleased. "What's your name, boy?" Don't tell him! thought Will, and stopped. Why not? he wondered, why? Jim's lips hardly twitched. "Simon," he said. He smiled to show it was a lie. Mr. Dark smiled to show he knew it.
- That’s friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of the other.
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