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You don’t really realize how many small sounds a house makes—the tocking of the grandfather clock, the sighing of the summer breeze against the windowpanes, the moaning of floor joists beneath a hundred pairs of expensive shoes—until you’ve
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“Each sentence was a crowded village of capital letters and small letters, living side by side in tight misery, crawling up on one another as though trying to escape the page. His spelling was several degrees beyond arbitrary, and his punctuation brought reason to sigh with unhappiness.”
― The Signature of All Things
― The Signature of All Things
“Most people have more needs than wants. That’s why they live the lives they do. But the world is run by those whose wants outstrip their needs.”
― Rules of Civility
― Rules of Civility
“If I give the impression that Powl taught me personal combat by beating me repeatedly, I do him wrong. He disapproved of such teaching, and knocked me down not out of punishment but by way of illustration. Unfortunately, there was so very much to illustrate. By the second year of my instruction”
― The Lens of the World Trilogy: Lens of the World, King of the Dead, and The Belly of the Wolf
― The Lens of the World Trilogy: Lens of the World, King of the Dead, and The Belly of the Wolf
“Emmett shook his head, uncertain of whether his father’s actions should give him cause for disappointment or admiration. As usual with such puzzles of the heart, the answer was probably both.”
― The Lincoln Highway
― The Lincoln Highway
“You, Nazhuret, once of Sordaling, are the lens of the world: the lens through which the world may become aware of itself. The world, on the other hand, is the only lens in which you can see yourself. It is both lenses together that make vision.”
― The Lens of the World Trilogy: Lens of the World, King of the Dead, and The Belly of the Wolf
― The Lens of the World Trilogy: Lens of the World, King of the Dead, and The Belly of the Wolf
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