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“The Boy looked at him for a long time before responding. Well, as long as youre my friend, Ill never ignore you, he said with conviction. I know what its like to be invisible to other people.”
“On my seventh birthday, my father swore, for the first of many times, that I would die facedown in a cesspool. On that same occasion, my mother, with all the accompanying mystery and elevated langu...”
“Dragonsbane, they called him.Slayer of dragons.Or a dragon, anyway. And, he'd later found out, not such a very big one at that.”
“Carla had realised there wasnt just one destined adventure in life, there were thousands of them.”
“Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.”
“And yet many of us do it without families," Nynaeve said. "Without love, without passion beyond our own particular interests. So even while we try to guide the world, we separate ourselves from it....”
“The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse.”
“Egnaro is a secret known to everyone but yourself.It is a country or a city to which you have never been; it is an unknown language. At the same time it is like being cuckolded, or plotted against....”
“All right," said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone.”
“The incalculable winds of fantasy and music and poetry, the mere face of a girl, the song of a bird, or the sight of a horizon, are always blowing evils whole structure away.”
“But if it so happens ... a work ... under pain of otherwise becoming shameful or false, requires fantasy ... [and that] certain limbs or elements of a figure are altered by borrowing from other spe...”
“Lend me your wings, bird. I'll spread them and fly on the thermals.”
“I felt something inside me rush up from tailbone to fingertips and explode in a fierce, joyful tide: that berserk rage that had nowhere to go until now.”
“That was a day that taught me the meaning of abject failure.”
“I would be a wedge-tailed eagle. I would only live for the joy of flight. I would soar at great heights, on top of the wind. I would be above everything, over the little towns clinging to the highw...”
“Fancies were all very well for a change, but must be only occasional guests in a world devoted to reality.”
“But of bliss and glad life there is little to be said, before it ends; as works fair and wonderful, while they still endure for eyes to see, are ever their own record, and only when they are in per...”
“The king is dead. Long live the queen.”
“The Dreaming is always; forever... it's always happening, and us mob, we're part of it, all the time, everywhere, and every-when too.”
“So rest a while, we can talk in the cool of the evening. Or the cool of the morning. There 's seldom as much hurry as I used to think there was." -HawkWho had been ArchmageThe Other Wind”
