There’s a fine edge to new grief, it severs nerves, disconnects reality—there’s mercy in a sharp blade. Only with time, as the edge wears, does the real ache begin.
“It takes a lifetime of evil to be a villain, and only one moment of good to be a hero.”
― Never Die
― Never Die
“He tried to sleep. Sleep was a vehicle for passing the time, for avoiding the present. It was a trolley for the depressed, the impatient, and the dying. Donald was all three.”
― Dust
― Dust
“It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.”
― Foundation
― Foundation
“master of alternatives, the eternal custodian of Plan B;”
― Memory
― Memory
“He turned reluctantly, driven away by the cold, but still listening until he passed into noisy spring again and found his way back home. He took the silence with him, though; he heard it in his dreams, where a part of him waited patiently for the ancient dreamers to speak a word as old and slow as stone.”
― Od Magic
― Od Magic
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