“You’ve no appreciation of high romance, that’s your trouble,” Lewis said, climbing in and starting the motor.
Joseph nodded somberly. “Boy meets girl, girl loses boy, everybody dies. I just don’t get it.”

—  Kage Baker, book The Graveyard Game

Source: The Graveyard Game (2001), Chapter 10, “Yorkshire” (p. 82)

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