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1 " Rainbows would never spring from a crock full of credit cards or computer printouts. "
― Carrie Anne Noble , The Gold-Son
2 " He didn't care now, not while the world wore such incredibly bright colors. Not while his blood sang the song of the stars inside his veins. "
3 " The fever lit on the town of Loughgillan like a flock of Death's own crows, at first perching wherever their talons could grip easily--upon the very old and the very young. And then, the birds seemed to settle anywhere and everywhere. "
4 " Better to be cautious than dead for the rest of your life,” Master Rafferty said as he resumed his work. "
5 " Gold was sweet, but its thrill never lasted, and it would never love him back, no matter how devoted he was to it. "
6 " Last—and most of all—I offer thanks to God: keeper of promises, healer of broken hearts, redeemer of lost causes, and the one who loves you and me more than we could ever deserve or imagine. "
7 " He ran from who he was and what he’d done—and what he knew he’d do again, like it or not. "
8 " Perhaps that was why she couldn’t stop thinking of him; he’d reminded her that she was neither invisible nor insignificant. He’d offered her hope and asked for nothing in return. "
9 " Besides, she had no desire to be entangled with anyone. She’d never been free in her life, and she meant to taste freedom. "
10 " Besides, she had no desire to be entangled with anyone. She’d never been free in her life, and she meant to taste freedom. To gulp it down by the barrelful. "
11 " Tommin shivered as he returned to his workbench, feeling Lorcan Reilly's gaze on the back of his head like a slow-creeping spider. "
12 " When the gold lust came, it hit him hard, like an unexpected left hook to the nose followed by a punch in the gut. The world swayed before his eyes as he stopped to lean against the churchyard’s stone wall. "