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“Of course. You get everything from books.”
“Don't wish,"said Rain, "don't start. Wishing only...”
“This is what fun is like," said Rain, almost to herself.”
“To read, even in the half-dark, is also to call the lost forward.”
“There were people everywhere but no one was mine, and I was no one's.”
“It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.”
“What had survived - maybe all that had survived of Trism - was Liir's sense of him. A catalog of impressions that arose from time to time, unbidden and often upsetting. From the sandy smell of his ...”
“Birds know themselves not to be at the center of anything, but at the margins of everything. The end of the map. We only live where someone's horizon sweeps someone else's. We are only noticed on t...”
“I care as much as I can, but I dont spend energy caring about things I cannot resolve.”
“O beautiful, to make escapeAnd leave this world behind.Had I to stay another dayI'd lose my fucking mind!”
“Dont let me get sappy on you, but when you get right down to it, every collection of letters is a magic spell, even if its a moronic proclamation by the Emperor. Words have their impact, girl. Mind...”
“But so often, before words can rise to the mind to imply the ineffable, the ineffable has effed off.”
“Secrets are revealed as you are ready to understand them. It seems capricious and mean-spirited of the Grimmerie to hold back, to yield and then to tease with a single page but then the world is t...”
“What a mystery we are to ourselves, even as we go on, learning more, sorting it out a little. The further on we go, the more meaning there is but the less articulable. You live your life, and the o...”
“They'd never been lovers, of course, not in the physical sense. But they'd been lovers as most of us manage, loving through expressions and gestures and the palm set softly upon the bruise at the n...”
“And that would be my method of locomotion, the Lion concluded. Not diplomas earned, but friendships bungled. Campaigns aborted. Errors in judgment and public humiliations.”
“Do good though, will you?" She blinked brightly at the green girl. "If not for your parents or your grandmother, then for me?”
“Everyone has a right to love the land that gave them the things they need to live. It gives them beauty to look at, and food to eat, and neighbors to bicker with and then eventually to marry. But I...”
“Well, I learned to cook. At my age," she told him. "What's next? Art therapy? Anyway, I've had quite a time of it this summer, and who knows what eases down on any road. Come, Rain. A quick goodbye...”
“Its been a long, rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.”
