““Is that as bad as it sounds?” Floyd asked.
“No,” Auger said. “It’s worse. A lot worse.””
Alastair Reynolds book Century Rain
Source: Century Rain (2004), Chapter 30 (p. 466)
“It's not as bad as it sounds.”
Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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