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“The Emperor Napoleon Buonaparte had been banished to the island of Elba. However His Imperial Majesty had some doubts wheter a quiet island life would suit him - he was, after all, accustomed to go...”
“Just before he passed behind the hedge at the end of the drive, he turned to look back at Stoke Morrow and caught me spying on him. His shining eyes were so cruel, and before I could close the curt...”
“The cliche that sea dry up and rocks rot away, but the heart never changes is nothing but a beautiful fantasy.”
“Sometimes the rues don't work. Sometimes the rules cause the anarchy.”
“I dont know who those other people are and what they did to you, but Im not one of them, I whispered, on the verge of tears. (Molly)You are. You just dont know yet. (Victor)”
“Despite their exhaustion and worries, Miner and Ennek made love that night, tracing fingers and tongues over one another's marks and scars. Their bodies were like books, Ennek thought, and their st...”
“I love you more than life itself, Arodi, you mean everything to me. I'm lost without you. I swear by all that is holy and sacred to me that I will never leave you, and I won't die on you. I'm never...”
“If you put your heart, mind and soul into it, there's nothing you can't do!”
“To gain your heart's desire you have to lose some part of your old life, your old self. To do that you have to have courage; without it, you can't make the leap. And if you don't make the leap you ...”
“The evolution of mind requires a diet of knowledge.”
“Nothing haunts the world more than the words of the dead.”
“It was another dark and windy night. Like so many others.”
“Mind gleams in every atom of the Universe.”
“Whats the difference? Fill a hundred pits with dead Northmen, congratulations, have a parade! Kill one man in the same uniform as you? A crime. A murder. Worse than despicable. Are we not all men? ...”
“The only things known to go faster than ordinary light is monarchy, according to the philosopher Ly Tin Weedle. He reasoned like this: you can't have more than one king, and tradition demands that ...”
“Fantasy is a wise lie.”
“Writing is the place where I can be as bold and compassionate and wise as I choose.”
“All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.”
“The water never stops, never gives up, and denies no faults in the path it takes, he explained, my eyes still focused down the ravine, It moves silently, only a mere trickle to entertain itself as ...”
“It be more a feeling. Something swirls out in the beyond, something unnatural. Its the reason so few venture to these worlds. The black spaces are a part of it, pieces unraveling pulling apart. Wev...”
