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“We have always been herbalists and healers, Trad...”
― The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue
― The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue
“Oo, I like a good cat fight – especially when it doesn’t involve me,’ Oscar said.
‘Shut up!’ Bryony and Raya said simultaneously. A hairline crack formed in the ice between them.”
― Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
‘Shut up!’ Bryony and Raya said simultaneously. A hairline crack formed in the ice between them.”
― Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
“Aspasia had herself fallen into very good fortune. So good that at the age of twenty years, she’d probably used up the whole life’s portion of good luck that Tyche had allotted her. To make good fortune last—for herself and the child in her womb—would be up to her.”
― Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
― Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
“Oh, so now I'm getting in trouble for things I didn't tell anyone I didn't know?”
― Down in the Valley
― Down in the Valley
“There’s nothing left to struggle for, and there are too many distractions and entertainments. Do you realize that every day something like five hundred hours of radio and TV pour out over the various channels? If you went without sleep and did nothing else, you could follow less than a twentieth of the entertainment that’s available at the turn of a switch! No wonder that people are becoming passive sponges—absorbing but never creating. Did you know that the average viewing time per person is now three hours a day? Soon people won’t be living their own lives any more. It will be a full-time job keeping up with the various family serials on TV!”
― Childhood's End
― Childhood's End
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