

“Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m.”
― Maskerade
― Maskerade
“The weather. It's like a poem. Where each word is more than one thing at once and everything's a metaphor. The meaning condensed into rhythm and sound and the spaces between sentences. It's all intense and sharp, like the cold and the wind.”
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“And when the dawn comes creeping in,
Cautiously I shall raise
Myself to watch the daylight win.”
― The Complete Poems of D.H. Lawrence
Cautiously I shall raise
Myself to watch the daylight win.”
― The Complete Poems of D.H. Lawrence

“So many wars have been fought and so much injustice has been perpetrated because we've banished others from our group and therefore our circle of concern.”
― The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
― The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

“You see, some people are born with a piece of night inside, and that hollow place can never be filled - not with all the good food or sunshine in the world. That emptiness cannot be banished, and so some days we wake with the feeling of the wind blowing through, and we must simply endure it as the boy did.”
― The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic
― The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic
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