“And sometimes then he sat with us for an hour or so, sharing our limbo, listening while I read. Books from any shelf, opened at any page, in which I would start and finish anywhere, mid-sentence sometimes. Wuthering Heights ran into Emma, which gave way to The Eustace Diamonds, which faded into Hard Times, which ceded to The Woman in White. Fragments. It didn't matter. Art, its completeness, its formedness, its finishedness, had no power to console. Words, on the other hand, were a lifeline.”
― The Thirteenth Tale
― The Thirteenth Tale
“Everyone always has to have the rational, scientific explanation for something, even if it's so obviously wrong you could scream.”
― Deep Secret
― Deep Secret
“The absence of doubt will turn humans into beasts.”
― Children and Fire
― Children and Fire
“A Guards regiment, eh, Comrade Colonel? These tit-sucking children could not guard a Turkish whorehouse; much less do anything worthwhile inside of it!”
While commenting on how unprepared his troops are. -Alekseyev”
― Red Storm Rising
While commenting on how unprepared his troops are. -Alekseyev”
― Red Storm Rising
“When things go wrong, you'll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.”
― The Horse and His Boy
― The Horse and His Boy
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