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“We can never stop searching for Heaven, since there is always more of it than we can see. There, as in those tales that evolve endlessly into other tales, stories have no end. They are hardly ever ...”
“Mythology is like a game of Chinese Whispers. What goes in at one end of the human circle is rarely what emerges at the other end.”
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“To some, you are a way to the light and to others you will be their true destruction.”
“Tonight I will take back what is mine.”
“I needed this cold shower for more than one reason; the sexy male from my dream this morning returned during my little siesta. His sultry baritone was still fresh in my mind as I waited for the wat...”
“These words you want to remember: if you do not learn to control the power within you, it will consume more than just your enemy.”
“Charles, if you were here right now, I'd totally kiss you."He chuckled softly. "I get that a lot, but I doubt my boyfriend will approve.”
“I wasn't aiming at the school bus, but of course I got expelled anyway.”
“Something has got to hold it together. I'm saying my prayers to Elmer, the Greek god of glue.”
“When a judge walks into the room, and everybody stands up, youre not standing up to that guy, youre standing up to the robe that hes wearing and the role that hes going to play. What makes him wort...”
“The vampire was real. It was only that his true story had never been told.”
“In Muspell, at the edge of the flame, where the mist burns into light, where the land ends, stood Surtr, who existed before the gods. He stands there now...It is said that at Ragnarok, which is the...”
“When they told him this, Ransom at last understood why mythology was what it was -- gleams of celestial strength and beauty falling on a jungle of filth and imbecility.”
“Myths have a very long memory.”
“Fear is a constant, and faith is a choice. Fear comes from karma, from faith arises dharma.”
“The battlefield is symbolic of the field of life, where every creature lives on the death of another. A realization of the inevitable guilt of life may so sicken the heart, that like Hamlet, or lik...”
“You really should play with someone your own size, you know.”
“But a myth, to speak plainly, to me is like a menu in a fancy French restaurant: glamorous, complicated camouflage for a fact you wouldn't otherwise swallow, like maybe lima beans.”
“As the red-haired female watched, it was obvious she could not process what was happening. It was as though she had never seen anything magical; her fear had her locked in place, unable to move. I...”
