“When you asked me how I was doing, was that some kind of joke”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
“What in the world is this abomination?”
Lissa, only slightly more tactful, asked, “Adrian, is this some kind of joke?”
— Richelle Mead, book Silver Shadows
Source: Silver Shadows
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Lissa, only slightly more tactful, asked, “Adrian, is this some kind of joke?" by Richelle Mead?
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"There is no story that is not true," said Uchendu. "The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others. We have albinos among us. Do you not think that they came to our clan by mistake, that they have strayed from their way to a land where everybody is like them?"