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" He looked like a kid caught making an angel in the snow, except his glasses had been blown off and one of his hands was bleeding. He breathed heavily; his belly rose and fell.
I knelt close. 'George?'
A groan, a cough. 'It's too late. Leave me....Let me sleep....'
I shook him firmly, slapped the side of his face. 'George, you've got to wake up! George, *please.* Are you okay?'
An eye opened. 'Ow. That cheek was the one part of me that *wasn't* sore.'
'Here, look - your glasses.' I scooped them out of the ash, put them on his chest. "

Jonathan Stroud , The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood & Co., #1)


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Jonathan Stroud quote : He looked like a kid caught making an angel in the snow, except his glasses had been blown off and one of his hands was bleeding. He breathed heavily; his belly rose and fell.<br />I knelt close. 'George?'<br />A groan, a cough. 'It's too late. Leave me....Let me sleep....'<br />I shook him firmly, slapped the side of his face. 'George, you've got to wake up! George, *please.* Are you okay?'<br />An eye opened. 'Ow. That cheek was the one part of me that *wasn't* sore.'<br />'Here, look - your glasses.' I scooped them out of the ash, put them on his chest.