“And now I have finished the work, which neither the wrath of Jove, nor fire, nor the sword, nor devouring age shall be able to destroy.”
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“You can endure any sort of prison if you can apprehend a window in the dark.”
― Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
― Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
“Though drones, avatars and even humans are one thing; the loss of any is not without moral and diplomatic import, of course, but might be dismissed as merely unfortunate and regrettable, something to be smoothed over through the usual channels. Attacking a ship, on the other hand, is an unambiguous act of war.”
― Surface Detail
― Surface Detail
“I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.”
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“He did not know how long it took, but later he looked back on this time of crying in the corner of the dark cave and thought of it as when he learned the most important rule of survival, which was that feeling sorry for yourself didn't work. It wasn't just that it was wrong to do, or that it was considered incorrect. It was more than that--it didn't work.”
― Hatchet
― Hatchet
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