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“Humanity's a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there.”
“He had never been interested in stories at any age, and had never quite understood the basic concept. He'd never read a work of fiction all the way through. He did remember, as a small boy, being r...”
“... They paid some madman who thought he was a decorator a lot of money to make the place look hip and unique. May be it's my lack of fashion sense talking, but I thought they should have held out ...”
“From DW:I got it. Here's the thing, I said. "I'm not going to be the government's bitch.”
“Perfection is death,' Anastasia said. 'The world is imperfect, but if it weren't, who would love it?”
“Consequences lost all purchase when they became mad. And desperation, when pressed beyond anguish, became narcotic.”
“It is practically an axiom in psychiatry that precocious intellect combined with physical weakness can give rise to many unpleasant character traits - avarice, delusions of grandeur , and obsessive...”
“Who upholds the gorsedd if not You? Who counts the ages of the world if not You? Who commands the Wheel of Heaven if not You? Who quickens life in the womb if not You? Therefore, God of All Virtue ...”
“I sleep with the lights on now. Not because Im afraid of the dark, but because I like to keep the night as far away as I can.”
“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 ...”
“This life is but a brief tenure, one of many perspectives a spirit must experience in the quest for eternity.”
“Foolishness pours out of an open mouth....but wisdom sneaks in through the ears....”
“Why are so many of us enspelled by myths and folk stories in this modern age? Why do we continue to tell the same old tales, over and over again? I think it's because these stories are not just fan...”
“The young man shivered. He rolled the stock themes of fantasy over in his mind: cars and stockbrokers and commuters, housewives and police, agony columns and commercials for soap, income tax and ch...”
“The most awesome powers are those not wielded.”
“The story of Terisa and Geraden began very much like a fable. She was a princess in a high tower. He was a hero come to rescue her. She was the only daughter of wealth and power. He was the seventh...”
“Lights and darks. And suddenly i was here, where everything seems strange. And I don't know why. Like the Fox and the Crow, I don't know the whole story yet. But that's a good reason to go on, don'...”
“I didnt ask for your help, I muttered, too exhausted to properly argue. So fuck you.An alarm bell went off in my head and I bit back a sigh. I swore I sensed the mischievous grin that inevitably cr...”
“Nice shack”
“We see what we want to see. We idealize each other with our own fantasies.”
