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“The garden is a miraculous place, and anything can happen on a beautiful moonlit night.”
“Small men command the letter of the law. Great men serve its spirit. For the spirit of the law is justice... and justice is the spirit of God.”
“The greatest war story ever told commemorates a war that established no boundaries, won no territory, and furthered no cause.”
“This, the only occasion in the Iliad when furious Achilles smiles serves as a bittersweet reminder of the difference real leadership could have made to the events of the Iliad. Agamemnon's panicked...”
“Surely, by all convention, the Iliad will end here, with the triumphant return of its vindicated hero. But the Iliad is not a conventional epic, and at the very moment of its hero's greatest milita...”
“Homer's epic does not tell of such seemingly essential events as the abduction of Helen, for example, nor of the mustering and sailing of the Greek fleet, the first hostilities of the war, the Troj...”
“What kind of person do you wish to be? A part of those who take action, who try the hardest, or of those who go with the flow?”
“We were friends before. Sort of. We never tried to kill each other.”
“I turn back to Griffin. His expression is stony and unreadable, although if I had to take a wild guess, Id say it was tending toward ominous.”
“Being on the edge is always worse than going through”
“You will know him by the blade he carries and the Dark-born skill with which he wields it, for none who know the love of the Father may defeat the Darkblade, yet all must stand against him.”
“The rhythm of fraught footsteps and fervent heartbeat orchestrated a symphony of anticipation and dread.”
“Oh, how long were the days of a man.When he strode upon the broken land.He sailed as far as a man could steer.And he never wished to lose his fear.For the fear of man is a thing untold.It keeps him...”
“I am five, I will never understandwhy we are stranded in our selvesbut in this moment I knowmy own storyis understanding our singlenessthat I am destined to move my body and timeinto the body-timet...”
“Lost race? The Prince studied Orayna, trying to see something inhuman in her. Why have I never heard of these Rathiuel? Because, Azaroth rapped his knuckles on the Princes skull, you do not care to...”
“In this life at least,Our fate is rarely epic.Maybe just as well,Impervious heroes we are not”
“I'm a little bit naked, but that's okay.”
“Uphill? There's nothing up the hill," Colly said, trying desperately to work out where this conversation was going."As a matter of fact, there is. There's a bluff about twelve meters high, with a r...”
“No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shudder ran through me and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary thing that was happening to me. An exquisite pleasur...”
“Lucifer unbound his absolutionHis purpose took unstoppable formA wyrm whose brilliance blindedTenacity burned as radiant as the AlmightyLucifer remembered this so vividlyA fond memory of when God s...”
