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Lucenna,” Klyde said, a warning in his tone. “You know I enjoy it when you’re mean to me.” “Be quiet before I strangle you,” she snapped, tightening the bonds around his neck. “I should kill you right now.” “If you keep flirting with me
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“When I thought of my mother, it was always as a presence - a role, almost - and it was strange to be faced with a truth that should have been obvious, that she had been someone with her own dreams and aspirations, who had felt the same as I had, and who had once had a life that existed entirely outside of her relationship to me.”
― The Shadows
― The Shadows
“Elijah’s fear drove him to the point of being cared for by God, almost as a child—with food to eat, with a place to sleep, with a response to his cries. That’s the direction fear leads when it is leading us away from self-sufficiency and toward the gospel by which we stand. In those cases, fear is not just a reaction but a revelation.”
― The Courage to Stand: Facing Your Fear without Losing Your Soul
― The Courage to Stand: Facing Your Fear without Losing Your Soul
“In ancient Egypt, the eel was considered a might demon, an equal of gods and a forbidden food. A creature moving effortlessly beneath the glittering surface of the holy Nile, slithering through the sediments of existence itself. Archaeologists have found mummified eels in tiny sarcophagi, laid to their eternal rest next to bronze statuettes of the gods.”
― The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World
― The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World
“As bad as your parents may be at their worst, they are the only parents you’ll ever have.”
― Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery
― Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery
“Kennan's much younger cousin, the diplomat George Frost Kennan, later wrote that timing was one reason Kennan's writings and lectures had such an impact. The trauma of the Civil War had left the country "disinclined to any intensive, introspective analysis of its own weaknesses," and the Russian exile system appealed to the American public's "curious Victorian capacity for sympathy and indignation over evils that were far away.”
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