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Double, treble, quadruple bubble, watch the stock market get into trouble.

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Garth Nix
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: July 19
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Melbourne
Australia
Garth Richard Nix
Trouble
Treble
Bubble
Bubbles
Double
Stock
Market
Watches
Watch
Quadruple

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My parents are going to kill me! That seems rather harsh.
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I am not going to change who I am. I am human and I know how to love, and be kind, and be compassionate to those who are weaker than me. Just because I have power doesn't mean I have to use it!
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Your father is angry with me because he thinks I almost got myself killed,' said Sabriel, with a slight grin. 'I don't understand it myself, since I think he should be glad that I didn't.
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So are you saying that somebody went to all the trouble to make you a crypt a thousand years ago on the off chance that you might turn up one day, walk in, and have a convenient heart attack?
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Who or what are you? Besides insufferably rude?
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Time plays tricks between here and home, said Mogget sepulchrally, frightening the life out of the telephone operator.
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