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“The thought of being with Shay Wilder makes me want to gouge my eyes out with a butter knife”
“What if things happened to youspecial, magic thingsbecause youd been preparing for them?”
“Sometimes what a person needs most is to be forgiven.”
“I want to tell you a story, Alex." Alex nibbled on his bottom lip, waiting. Wondering now if Mr. Today really understood that Alex was turning him down."Simber." The old mage said.Alex automaticall...”
“There will be grace and forgiveness enough, old dog, even for you. I pray you will spare me a drink from that cup, when it overflows for you.- Miles Vorkosigan”
“Grin is still beside me. His arms are hung tightly as his side and I take his hand. It is like touching stone and he turns stiffly toward me as we begin making our way back to where Rosso had campe...”
“Watching them, Harmony felt too shaken to take a step. Eddie and Sheba were young; but she herself had become old. Even if she wasnt particularly old if you just counted years, the fact was years w...”
“Finallya day will come whenwoken by the xylophoneof sunthroughblindsyoull realisethat the beach was not the placewhere horses tore the sandto ribbonthat the scent of him has liftedfrom the last of ...”
“they say were losing centimetresevery year; as if we werea beach thats losingground with every salt advancethe night is overcastbut why not try, at least,to touch the things our orbitscannot hold, ...”
“A book, child. A book just for you, in a lost language.”
“But Ive learned that sometimes, somehow, no matter how much time we spend apart from the ones we care most about, our love for them never fades, for time apart only makes our love grow stronger.”
“One night when we were lying under the stars together she pointed to this beaming bright star beside the moon and said wherever she was in the world, whether we were together or apart, that I shoul...”
“Royse Bergon: "I've seen your integrity in action. It...widened my world. I'd been raised by my father, who is a prudent, cautious man, always looking for men's hidden, selfish motivations. No one ...”
“You were kind.Cazaril shrugged. Why not? What could it cost me, after all?Bergon shook his head. Any man can be kind when he is comfortable. Id always thought kindness a trivial virtue, therefore. ...”
“Well, it is a particular sin to permit grief for what is gone to poison the praise for what blessings remain to us.”
“I believe that we should all be free to believe what we want and not be condemned for it, I say without a thought. I believe in a higher power and that it works within us. Whatever the name doesn't...”
“Carrie doesn't seem to talk about anything with sharp edges. Maybe she's afraid they might poke her and then she'd burst.”
“Whoever tells the best story shapes the culture.”
“Great readers (are) those who know early that there is never going to be time to read all there is to read, but do their darnedest anyway.”
“. . . it's part of the adventure!”
