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  1. Neil Gaiman _ Neverwhere

    Islington smiled superciliously. "Lucifer?" It said. "Lucifer was an idiot. It wound up lord and master of nothing at all." The marquis grinned. "And you wound up lord and master of two thugs and a roomful of candles?
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  2. Neil Gaiman _ Neverwhere

    Any way, death is so final, isn't it?"Is it?" asked Richard."Sometimes," said the marquis de Carabas. And they went down.
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  3. Neil Gaiman _ Neverwhere

    What," asked Mr Croup, "do you want?""What," asked the Marquis de Carabas, a little more rhetorically, "does anyone want?""Dead things," suggested Mr Vandemar. "Extra teeth.
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  4. Neil Gaiman _ Neverwhere

    The thin girl was gulping down one of Richard's bananas in what was, Richard reflected, the least erotic display of banana-eating he had ever seen.
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  5. Neil Gaiman _ Neverwhere

    Hold fast," he called. "Tell me your names, and your stations.""I am the Lady Door," said Door. "I am Portico's daughter, of the House of the Arch.""I am Hunter. I am her bodyguard.""Richard Mayhew," said Richard. "Wet.
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  6. Neil Gaiman _ Neverwhere

    I'm not scared of falling,' he told himself. 'The bit I'm scared of is the bit where you stop falling, and start being dead.
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  7. Neil Gaiman _ Neverwhere

    We were expecting to see you at the market.""Yes. Well. Some people thought I was dead. I was forced to keep a low profile.""Why . . . why did some people think you were dead?"The marquis looked at Richard with eyes that had seen too much and gone too far. "Because they killed me."
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  8. Neil Gaiman _ Neverwhere

    However you must have sensed a lurking 'but' skulking beneath my happy, blithe, and chipper exterior. A minuscule vexation, like the teeniest lump of raw liver sticking to the inside of my boot.
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  9. Neil Gaiman _ Neverwhere

    Until that moment she had never thought she could do it. Never thought she would be brave enough or scared enough, or desperate enough to dare.
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  10. Neil Gaiman _ Neverwhere

    'Door,' called Richard. 'Don't do it. Don't set it free. We don't matter.' 'Actually,' said the marquis, 'I matter very much. But I have to agree. Don't do it.'
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  11. Neil Gaiman _ Neverwhere

    Now me," said Mr. Vandemar."What number am I thinking of?" "I beg your pardon?" "What number am I thinking of?" repeated Mr. Vandemar. "It's between one and a lot," he added, helpfully.
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  12. Neil Gaiman _ Neverwhere

    The young woman was crying, in the way that grownups cry, keeping it inside as much as they can, and hating it when it still pushes out at the edges, making them ugly and funny-looking on the way.
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