Source: From the Corner of His Eye (2000), Chapter 64; words of former policeman Thomas Vanadium
“There's a certain kind of lonely man who rejects love, because he believes that anyone who offers it wouldn't be a lover worth having.”
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Gene Wolfe
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There Are Doors
Source: There Are Doors
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