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A forest floor, the Woodland villagers knew, is a living thing. Vast civilizations lay within the mosaic of dirt: hymenopteran labyrinths, rodential panic rooms, life-giving airways sculpted by the traffic of worms, hopeful spiders’ hunting
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“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
“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
“it would occur to me that my mother had been Uncle Earl’s sister first, and he probably had a lot of experience in working around her inexhaustible need to be correct in the face of adversity.”
― The Hollow Places
― The Hollow Places
“You have taught me to be still, so that I could move properly. You have taught me to listen, so that I can speak properly. You have taught me to see, so that I might not always be seen.”
― 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
“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
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