#chess putnam

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People, she was discovering, were like cockroaches: If you allowed one in, more were sure to follow.

Stacia Kane, City of Ghosts

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Some days it just didn’t pay to get out of bed; in that sense at least, this day was no different from any others.

Stacia Kane, City of Ghosts

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Couldn’t something, sometime, just be straightforward and easy? Right. Stupid question.

Stacia Kane, City of Ghosts

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No she wasn’t seeing him anymore - well, what they’d been doing together wasn’t really “seeing,” not unless the sentence finished with “each other naked. A lot.” The problem was, he didn’t know that.

Stacia Kane, City of Ghosts

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He wouldn’t look at her; she couldn’t look away.

Stacia Kane, City of Ghosts

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Stupid” was one word for people who thought they could get away with betraying Bump. The other word was “dead.

Stacia Kane, City of Ghosts

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She closed her eyes, dug down deep to the emptiness in her soul. The place where things like love and happiness and warmth should be, the place that was an almost empty room for her, the place where only two people lived, and one of them hated her.

Stacia Kane, City of Ghosts

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Hurting a man who solved all his problems with violence probably wasn’t the best idea she’d ever had in her life.

Stacia Kane, Unholy Magic