“I will start with the tree. Because everything begins, and ends, with the tree. The tree is the tallest one. It was planted way before the others. I'm not sure how old it is, exactly. Perhaps three or four hundred years old. It is ancient and powerful. It has weathered terrible storms, braced against unbridled winds. It is not afraid.
The tree is not like the others. It has its own rhythm. Spring starts later for it, while all the others are already blossoming. Come late April, the new oval leaves sprout slowly, on the top and middle branches only. Otherwise, it looks dead. Gnarled, gray, and withered. It likes to pretend to be dead. That's how clever it is. Then, suddenly, like a huge explosion, all the buds flourish. The tree triumphs with its pale green crowns.”
― The Rain Watcher
The tree is not like the others. It has its own rhythm. Spring starts later for it, while all the others are already blossoming. Come late April, the new oval leaves sprout slowly, on the top and middle branches only. Otherwise, it looks dead. Gnarled, gray, and withered. It likes to pretend to be dead. That's how clever it is. Then, suddenly, like a huge explosion, all the buds flourish. The tree triumphs with its pale green crowns.”
― The Rain Watcher
“Ernesto knew that the Church would fight tooth and nail to retain its power over the people.”
― The Guardian of Secrets
― The Guardian of Secrets
“There’s only one thing more stupid than stupid rules, and that’s the people who follow them.”
― Be More Pirate: Or How to Take On the World and Win
― Be More Pirate: Or How to Take On the World and Win
“Truthfully, Professor Hawking? Why would we allow tourists from the future muck up the past when your contemporaries had the task well in Hand?"
Brigadier General Patrick E Buckwalder 2241C.E.”
― Paradox Effect: Time Travel and Purified DNA Merge to Halt the Collapse of Human Existence
Brigadier General Patrick E Buckwalder 2241C.E.”
― Paradox Effect: Time Travel and Purified DNA Merge to Halt the Collapse of Human Existence
“If people would make an effort to learn about the wonders that did exist, he thought, their appetite for dragons would be well satisfied.”
― Beast
― Beast
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