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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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“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 cabins, crash pads for nomadic beetles, trees shyly locking toes with one another. It was here that you’d find the resourcefulness of rot, the wholeness of fungi.”
― A Psalm for the Wild-Built
― A Psalm for the Wild-Built
“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
“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
“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
“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
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