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6d8e727
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Kools and Newports were for black people and lower-class whites. Camels were for procrastinators, those who wrote bad poetry, and those who put off writing bad poetry. Merits were for sex addicts, Salems were for alcoholics, and Mores were for people who considered themselves to be outrageous but really weren't.
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stereotypes
smoking
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David Sedaris |
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fe6f883
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"As Alaska zipped through something obvious about linear equations, stoner/baller Hank Walsten said, "Wait, wait. I don't get it." "That's because you have eight functioning brain cells." "Studies show that Marijuana is better for your health than those cigarettes," Hank said. Alaska swallowed a mouthful of fries, took a drag on her cigarette, and blew a smoke at Hank. "I may die young," she said. "But at least I'll die smart. Now, back to tangents."
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life
cigarettes
smart
smoking
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John Green |
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7f4becc
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Even if it were possible to cast my horoscope in this one life, and to make an accurate prediction about my future, it would not be possible to 'show' it to me because as soon as I saw it my future would change by definition. This is why Werner Heisenberg's adaptation of the Hays Office--the so-called principle of uncertainty whereby the act of measuring something has the effect of altering the measurement--is of such importance. In my case the difference is often made by publicity. For example, and to boast of one of my few virtues, I used to derive pleasure from giving my time to bright young people who showed promise as writers and who asked for my help. Then some profile of me quoted someone who disclosed that I liked to do this. Then it became something widely said of me, whereupon it became almost impossible for me to go on doing it, because I started to receive far more requests than I could respond to, let alone satisfy. Perception modifies reality: when I abandoned the smoking habit of more than three decades I was given a supposedly helpful pill called Wellbutrin. But as soon as I discovered that this was the brand name for an antidepressant, I tossed the bottle away. There may be successful methods for overcoming the blues but for me they cannot include a capsule that says: 'Fool yourself into happiness, while pretending not to do so.' I should actually my mind to be strong enough to circumvent such a trick.
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depression
future
reality
happiness
life
assistance
bupropion
hays-office
measurement
mentorship
publicity
soothsaying
horoscopes
uncertainty-principle
werner-heisenberg
self-delusion
perception
virtues
writers
smoking
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Christopher Hitchens |
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acdcdc2
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"Why do you have a cigarette lighter in your glove compartment?" her husband, Jack, asked her. "I'm bored with knitting. I've taken up arson"
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knitting
smoking
sarcasm
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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acc6f22
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There was a young lady named Mae Who smoked without stopping all day; As pack followed pack, Her lungs first turned black, And eventually rotted away.
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smoking
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Edward Gorey |
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2ca59d7
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After some time he felt for his pipe. It was not broken, and that was something. Then he felt for his pouch, and there was some tobacco in it, and that was something more. Then he felt for matches and he could not find any at all, and that shattered his hopes completely.
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pipe
tobacco
smoking
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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d3364c4
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I ran like a cheetah - well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.
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smoking
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John Green |
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7398a96
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Man, it was a good thing vampires didn't get cancer. Lately he'd been chain-smoking like a felon.
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humor
life
cancer
smoking
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J.R. Ward |
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ceeb62f
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She blew more smoke toward me, a lazy game of cancer catch.
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death
smoke
cigarette
cigarettes
inevitable
smoking
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Gillian Flynn |
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d701800
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You may tend to get cancer from the thing that makes you want to smoke so much, not from the smoking itself.
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philosophy
health
smoking
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William Saroyan |
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331c983
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"I was at a dinner party many years ago,sitting along from Tom Stoppard, who in those days smoked not just between courses,but between mouthfuls. An American woman watched in disbelief. "And you so intelligent!" "Excuse me?" said tom "Knowing those things are going to kill you" she said "and still you do it." "How differently I might behave" Tom said, "if immortality were an option"
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witty
smoking
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Stephen Fry |
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86fde22
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I know cigarettes can kill & wonder why she wants to die.
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wonder
death
smoking
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Nick Flynn |
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fa51228
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"You smoke?" "Smoke? Do I look like a fucking idiot?"
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suicide
stupidity
cigarette
lung-cancer
slow-death
tobacco
cigarettes
health
idiocy
poison
smoking
idiot
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Richard K. Morgan |
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5ab42bf
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"Yesterday it was sun outside. The sky was blue and people were lying under blooming cherry trees in the park. It was Friday, so records were released, that people have been working on for years. Friends around me find success and level up, do fancy photo shoots and get featured on big, white, movie screens. There were parties and lovers, hand in hand, laughing perfectly loud, but I walked numbly through the park, round and round, 40 times for 4 hours just wanting to make it through the day. There's a weight that inhabits my chest some times. Like a lock in my throat, making it hard to breathe. A little less air got through and the sky was so blue I couldn't look at it because it made me sad, swelling tears in my eyes and they dripped quietly on the floor as I got on with my day. I tried to keep my focus, ticked off the to-do list, did my chores. Packed orders, wrote emails, paid bills and rewrote stories, but the panic kept growing, exploding in my chest. Tears falling on the desk tick tick tick me not making a sound and some days I just don't know what to do. Where to go or who to see and I try to be gentle, soft and kind, but anxiety eats you up and I just want to be fine. This is not beautiful. This is not useful. You can not do anything with it and it tries to control you, throw you off your balance and lovely ways but you can not let it. I cleaned up. Took myself for a walk. Tried to keep my eyes on the sky. Stayed away from the alcohol, stayed away from the destructive tools we learn to use. the smoking and the starving, the running, the madness, thinking it will help but it only feeds the fire and I don't want to hurt myself anymore. I made it through and today I woke up, lighter and proud because I'm still here. There are flowers growing outside my window. The coffee is warm, the air is pure. In a few hours I'll be on a train on my way to sing for people who invited me to come, to sing, for them. My own songs, that I created. Me--little me. From nowhere at all. And I have people around that I like and can laugh with, and it's spring again.
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lovely
madness
lovers
new-day
gratitude
drinking
joy
inspiration
sadness
music
songs
happiness
hope
be-okay
fine
panic-attacks
park
starving
panic-attack
chest
sound
ed
okay
self-destruction
wellness
grateful
hopeful
anxiety
alcohol
coffee
spring
well-being
art
singing
hurt
balance
sky
flowers
crying
focus
panic
sing
tears
walking
hopeless
recovery
sad
self-harm
smoking
mental-health
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Charlotte Eriksson |
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5743460
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If I had felt then as I feel now, or as I felt a few years after I had married her, nothing could possibly have persuaded me to marry a woman who smoked. Dates, yes. Sexual adventures, yes. But to pin myself permanently inside closed quarters with a smoker? Never. Never. Never. Beauty wouldn't count, sweetness wouldn't count, suitability in every other respect wouldn't count.
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smoking
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Isaac Asimov |
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b2a1f7e
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The phone is about the same size as a cigarette pack. It's no surprise to me that the traditional cigarette lighter in many cars has turned into the space we use to recharge our phones. They are kin. The phone, like the cigarette, let's the texter/former smoker drop out of any social interaction for a second to get a break and make a little love to the beautiful object. We need something, people. We can't live propless.
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cigarettes
smoking
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Aimee Bender |
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307b543
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you wouldn't happen to have a pipe and a bit of tobacco about, would- i heard that! gandalf enjoyed a good pipe! why do you think he's called gandalf the gray? it wasn't for the color of his robes
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humor
zifnab
smoking
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Margaret Weis |
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f0476b4
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He rarely smoked, but once in a while, like now, when his world had been shaken, his woman nearly killed in front of his eyes, and he'd watched a house consume a man and spit him out, he figured a drag or two were appropriate.
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stress-relief
smoking
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Christine Feehan |
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6d4e7ed
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The book was not new. Dates were stamped on the front endpaper, in and out dates. A rent book. A lending library of elaborate smut. I rewrapped the book and locked it up behind the seat. A racket like that, out in the open on the boulevard, seemed to mean plenty of protection. I sat there and poisoned myself with cigarette smoke and listened to the rain and thought about it.
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rain
smoking
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Raymond Chandler |
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689f1e0
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Didn't you tell me smoking ruined your stamina as a boxer? ... Ruined is a strong word, I'd say. ... It helps fight boredom. It gives you more to do and less time to do it in.
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cigarettes-smoking
smoking
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Mohsin Hamid |
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1d99ca5
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He even let me smoke a cigarette in his office, but he urged me to quit smoking because of the health risks. He even had a pamphlet in his desk that he gave me. I now use it as a bookmark.
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english-teacher
political-correct-crap
smoking
political-correctness
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Stephen Chbosky |
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2d8f7a3
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Reading his autobiography many years later, I was astonished to find that Edward since boyhood had--not unlike Isaiah Berlin--often felt himself ungainly and ill-favored and awkward in bearing. He had always seemed to me quite the reverse: a touch dandyish perhaps but--as the saying goes--perfectly secure in his masculinity. On one occasion, after lunch in Georgetown, he took me with him to a renowned local tobacconist and asked to do something I had never witnessed before: 'try on' a pipe. In case you ever wish to do this, here is the form: a solemn assistant produces a plastic envelope and fits it over the amber or ivory mouthpiece. You then clamp your teeth down to feel if the 'fit' and weight are easy to your jaw. If not, then repeat with various stems until your browsing is complete. In those days I could have inhaled ten cigarettes and drunk three Tanqueray martinis in the time spent on such flippancy, but I admired the commitment to smoking nonetheless. Taking coffee with him once in a shopping mall in Stanford, I saw him suddenly register something over my shoulder. It was a ladies' dress shop. He excused himself and dashed in, to emerge soon after with some fashionable and costly looking bags. 'Mariam,' he said as if by way of explanation, 'has never worn anything that I have not bought for her.' On another occasion in Manhattan, after acting as a magnificent, encyclopedic guide around the gorgeous Andalusia ( ) exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, he was giving lunch to Carol and to me when she noticed that her purse had been lost or stolen. At once, he was at her service, not only suggesting shops in the vicinity where a replacement might be found, but also offering to be her guide and advisor until she had selected a suitable new . I could no more have proposed myself for such an expedition than suggested myself as a cosmonaut, so what this says about my own heterosexual confidence I leave to others.
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autobiography
carol-blue
georgetown-washington
heterosexuality
museum-of-modern-art
pipes
purses
stanford
edward-said
manhattan
masculinity
self-confidence
shyness
smoking
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Christopher Hitchens |
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3a75594
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"Hugh returned from his trip, and days later I still sounded like a Red Chinese asking questions about the democratic hinterlands. "And you actually saw people smoking in restuarants? Really! And offices, too? Oh, tell me again about the ashtrays in the hospital waiting room, and don't leave anything out."
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smoking
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David Sedaris |
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db255e9
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It's hard to love a place that's outlawed smoking but finds it perfectly acceptable to serve raw fish in a bath of chocolate.
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place
smoking
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David Sedaris |
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08a86d2
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"The girl who signed her papers in lipstick
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lipstick
cool
smoking
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Billy Collins |
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da1b5b6
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"She shakily rushed towards the car to find Alecto casually standing beside it, smoking a cigarette and staring fixedly on the radio as it played the song 'Draggin' the Line' by Tommy James, his expression thoughtful. "What are you thinking about?" Mandy questioned. "Wouldn't the world be a very loud place to live if we said everything we thought?" Alecto asked quietly."
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live
mind
world
music
song
dragging
tommy-james
noisy
cigarette
line
place
quiet
radio
thinking
question
loud
noise
thought
smoking
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Rebecca McNutt |
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3ccf851
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And, sure, fine, I do check my phone about every two minutes, but so do a lot of people, and it's better than smoking, that's what I say. It's the new, lung-safe cigarette.
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cell-phones
cigarettes
smoking
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Aimee Bender |
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5ae445e
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Among the world's evils--fascism, ethnic cleansing, environmental degradation-- smoking deserves the most severe curricular attention in my kid's school.
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smoking
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Jess Walter |
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7419597
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The smoke from her cigarette passed beneath the nostrils of the brown and white girls, and their space-annihilating concupiscence seemed centered on mentholated smoke along.
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concupiscence
nostrils
smoke
smoking
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr. |
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b999ca9
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Looking up at the stars and smoking in silence.
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silence
stars
romance
elizabeth-wein
ellen-mcewen
the-pearl-thief
julie
certainty
smoking
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Elizabeth Wein |
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a144562
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she has heard somewhere that cigarettes are good for grief. One long drag and you forget how to cry. The body too busy dealing with the poison. No wonder they gave them out free to the soliders. Lucky Strikes.
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pain
grief
smoking
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Colum McCann |
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8400671
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<> la voce di Rhage lo raggiunse in bagno. <> Qhuinn diede una rapida controllata alle basette con la mano. A posto. <>, strillo al di sopra del getto d'acqua. Chiuse il rubinetto e usci dalla doccia, asciugandosi mentre tornava in camera da letto. Ritto accanto a un Tohr tutto sorridente, Rhage teneva le braccia dietro la schiena. <> Qhuinn li guardo torvo. <> Rhage guardo Tohr, sogghignando. Quando l'altro fratello annui, Hollywood tiro fuori quello che nascondeva dietro il corpo mastodontico. Qhuinn rimase impietrito. <> <>, lo interruppe Rhage. <> <>, disse Tohr. <> <>, bofonchio Rhage. <> <> chiese Lassiter, piombando nella stanza. <> <> Hollywood si volto proprio mentre V entrava dietro l'angelo. <> <> V si accese una delle sue sigarette rollate a mano. <> <>, fece notare Rhage. <> <>, esclamo Trez, sopraggiungendo insieme ad iAm. <> <>, scherzo Rhage. <> <> V controllo l'orologio. <> <>, sentenzio Phury, spalancando la porta insieme a Z. <> <>, annuncio Rehv alle spalle dei gemelli. <> <>, ribadi Phury. <> <> Un pandemonio. Totale. Assoluto. Osservando la scena, con tutti quei vampiri che parlavano uno sopra l'altro, dandosi il cinque e scambiandosi pacche sul sedere, Qhuinn rimase per un attimo senza fiato. Poi abbasso gli occhi sull'anello che gli aveva regalato Blay. Avere una famiglia era... proprio, incredibilmente meraviglioso. <>, disse piano. Tutti si bloccarono di colpo, voltandosi verso di lui e guardandolo, immobili, in perfetto silenzio. Fu Z a prendere la parola, con gli occhi gialli che brillavano. <> Le pacche sulle spalle si sprecarono via via che tutti, uscendo, lo salutavano. Poi Qhuinn rimase da solo con il suo smoking. <>, disse all'abito.
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amore
famiglia
matrimonio
smoking
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J.R. Ward |