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  1. Libba Bray _ Lair of Dreams

    There's no such thing as hideously ordinary. If something is hideous, it's automatically extraordinary. In a hideous way.
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  2. Libba Bray _ Lair of Dreams

    Memphis's eyes fluttered open. Theta's eyes were wide, and she was crying. 'Did I hurt you?'She laughed through tears. 'You could never hurt me.
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    Terrific, Miss Knight. Simply terrific,' a smiling reporter said. 'They're going to love this story in Peoria. Why, you'll be famous everywhere - from New York to Hollywood, Florida to Kansas.''Kansas?' Theta whispered.'Yeah. Big state in the middle of the country. Fulla corn, Republicans, and Bible salesmen, and not much else?
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  4. Libba Bray _ Lair of Dreams

    I found her. There was blood everywhere. I slipped and fell in it.''That's awful,' Ling said when she found her voice again.'It was awful. I loved those pants."
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  5. Libba Bray _ Lair of Dreams

    Bloody clothing is often a clue that something has gone awry.
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  6. Libba Bray _ Lair of Dreams

    Mr. DuBois, you are a rehearsal accompanist. I do not pay you for your musical interpretation.' The impresario marched down the aisle and stood in the middle like the commander of a mutinying ship.'No, Mr. Ziegfeld. I'm not. I'm a songwriter. My songs are a damn sight better than this garbage.'One of the midwestern chorus girls gasped.'Forgive my language,' Henry added.
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  7. Libba Bray _ Lair of Dreams

    No. I like my girls fully conscious when I kiss 'em. I'm funny that way,
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  8. Libba Bray _ Lair of Dreams

    And falling for Sam Lloyd was the don't-you-dare cherry on top of a worst-idea sundae.
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  9. Libba Bray _ Lair of Dreams

    So the good people maintained the illusion of democracy and wrote another hymn to America. They sang loud enough to drown out dissent. They sang loud enough to overpower their own doubts. There were no plaques to commemorate mistakes."
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  10. Libba Bray _ Lair of Dreams

    Go on, darling," she said, batting her lashes. "Tell them the rest." "Riiiight," Sam said, suppressing a smirk.
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  11. Libba Bray _ Lair of Dreams

    Beside her uncle's picture was his resident permit, which all Chinese were required to carry. To be caught without it could mean prison time or deportation. Ling had been born right there in Chinatown. She was considered a citizen. But under the Chinese Exclusion Act, her father never would be. As for her Irish mother, the moment she married an "Asian alien," she'd given up her chance to become an American citizen. Ling lived with the worry that some small mistake could cost them everything, that she could be torn from them as her uncle had been from his own parents.
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  12. Libba Bray _ Lair of Dreams

    They're too tired for bathing, but they're not too tired for dreams. For dreams, too, are ghosts, desires chased in sleep, gone by morning. The longing of dreams draws the dead, and the city hall to many dreams.
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