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  1. Kate Atkinson _ Human Croquet

    Is this normal, I wonder? But then, what is normal?
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  2. Kate Atkinson _ Human Croquet

    I'm a shadow of my former self," she announces. Vinny was a shadow to begin with, now she's a shadow of a shadow.
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  3. Kate Atkinson _ Human Croquet

    Maybe we're all the living dead, reconstituted from the dust of the dead."
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  4. Kate Atkinson _ Human Croquet

    Vinny rarely leaves the house so when she does it's an occasion of some importance to her. She spends a lot of time looking forward to a glimpse of the outside world and then, when she returns, even more time complaining about it."
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  5. Kate Atkinson _ Human Croquet

    I don't think I'd mind working on a cheese counter. It would leave my mind free to do whatever it wanted - which is nothing in particular, it's true, but I like being alone in my head, I'm used to it.
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  6. Kate Atkinson _ Human Croquet

    Before the beginning is the void and the void belongs in neither time nor space and is therefore beyond our imagination.Nothing will come of nothing unless it's the beginning of the world. This is how it begins, with the word and the word is life. The void is transformed by a gigantic firecracker allowing time to dawn and imagination to begin.
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  7. Kate Atkinson _ Human Croquet

    I'm not myself," she said and then laughed maniacally, "but God knows who I am.
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  8. Kate Atkinson _ Human Croquet

    Do you keep time in the same place that you save it? If so why is it always so difficult to find? It must be in a very safe place.
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  9. Kate Atkinson _ Human Croquet

    ... the doors of perception are hanging crazily off their hinges these days.
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  10. Kate Atkinson _ Human Croquet

    I suppose a better sister would have set about weaving him a shirt from nettles and throwing it over his furred-over body so that he could be released from his enchantment and resume his human form. I give him some cat food instead.
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  11. Kate Atkinson _ Human Croquet

    I wanted her for what she was, but when I got her I wanted her to change.
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  12. Kate Atkinson _ Human Croquet

    I am mad, I think. I am mad therefore I think. I am mad therefore I think I am.
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