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“There comes a point in one's life where the people whom we grew up admiring begin to die, leaving a great chasm in the world. This is awful enough to deal with without having anything so annoying a...”
“The captains eyes betrayed what his countenance must conceal: the anguish of an ancient being who must honour his birthright by living beyond those whom he would have given much to keep.”
“What will I do when you're gone?" said Alasdair, with a faltering voice.Bryeison placed a hand on his shoulder and said, with raging tranquility, "Do what is good and what is right.”
“I am never one to judge others; I am so eccentric myself that I have no right to cast aspersions. A person may or may not like a thing, and I have little to say other than I love it too or how coul...”
“The most obnoxious thing in the world is to listen to others drone on about how much they love the heat.I leaned over to one woman at the caf, who was professing how at home she was in the swelteri...”
“If the sale of flesh could be made as easily as the sale of spiritual exemption, the prescience of a dedicated businessman might be well preserved.”
“The past is behind us," said Boudicca,"but the difficulty there is we keep looking over our shoulders.”
“But the world hinges on good fathers and those who would be the merchants of confidence.”
“A six mile meteorite cannot compare with a culinary cataclysm of this magnitude.”
“Abuse really is its own alphabet. Those who have not gone through it cannot understand it fully. The echos of violence hang in subconscious long after the threat is gone.”
“Never underestimate the audacity of the small minded and slightly crapulous.A rather bleezed young neighbour decided to have a grammar battle with me. It lasted all of two seconds.I said something ...”
“A scientist does not have hope, sir. Hope is what a man has in the absence of answers, and once he does empirical experimentation, he replaces hope with knowledge and disappointment.”
“The matron glanced at the old man and suppressed a smile. He is absolutely miserable. I enjoy miserable. It gives one a contrast to all the delectabilities of life. But is he housebroken, inpala? H...”
“The cern paled, and all the courageous which accompanied him into the conversation was now all done away. He shrunk back, his audacity dwizzening under the teneberous gloom of the giants long shado...”
“The words when I take you home echoed in the captains mind, caroming off that private place where all his suspicions and uncertainties slept.”
“I know we are supposed to welcome anyone who vows to protect the kingdom, but really, anyone will do anything for a copper these days, and where pride and promises are saleable, expendable men come...”
“There is a very great difference between older and old, the former being desirable and the latter being inevitable.”
“We all emerge into this material soup, mix about with the meat and potatoes of life, and then slip away, back to the primordial germination whence we came. Nascence is a strange business: we forget...”
“A heart? Peppone knows where one is to be met with. There is always someone in the black market in need of dying early.”
“Any advice for how to be a successful author?""Yes. Don't be a woman. And be dead. And do both at the same time, if you can.”
