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"We don`t use magic, lad,'" the Spook said, his voice hardly more than a whisper in the darkness. "The main tools of our trade are common sense, courage and the keeping of accurate records, so we can learn from the past. Above all, we don`t believe in prophecies. We don`t believe that the future is fixed. So if what your mother wrote comes true, then it`s because we make it come true. Do you understand?"

Someone has to do it. So it might as well be me.

I walked down the steps and set there in this cellar in the darkness. Then I took three deep breathes and I faced my fear. I faced the darkness itself, which is the most terrifying thing of all, especially for people like us, because things come to us in the dark. They seek us out with whispers and take shapes only our eyes can see. But I did it, and when I left this cellar the worst was over.

Just because you`ve left home, it doesn`t mean that you can`t come back and visit.

"You`ll make a fortune doing that job. There`s just one problem, though..."

"What`s that?" I asked.

"You`ll need every penny you earn. Know why?"

I shrugged.

"Because the only friends you`ll have are the ones you buy!"

My dad was a farmer and his father had been a farmer too, and the first rule of farming is to keep the farm together. You can`t just divide it up among amongst your children; it would be smaller and smaller with each generation until there was nothing left. So a father leaves his farm to his eldest son. Then he finds jobs for the rest.

Она всегда была кем-то посредине, ни хорошей, ни плохой. Но разве не все мы такие? Никто ведь не безупречен.

– Алиса, ты когда-нибудь лжешь? – спросил я.

– Все лгут, – ответила она. – Это свойственно человеку. Но обычно я говорю правду.

Поэтому я солгал, сказал неправду, ту, от которой вреда точно не будет, а радость – может быть

Я спустился по лестнице и сел. Три раза вздохнул и смело встретил свой страх. Я встретил темноту, хуже которой ничего нет, особенно для таких, как мы, потому что в темноте к нам приходят тени, которые видим только мы. Но я встретил их, и, когда покинул подвал, худшее было позади