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What is it like to live freely, to live a life untethered, without having to be responsible for everyone around you?
“Knowledge is power, isn't it?"
"Not necessarily. Knowledge is dangerous. Once you know something, you can never be rid of it. You have to carry it always. Even if it pains you."
Liss to Julian & Paige (Pg. 112)”
― The Bone Season
"Not necessarily. Knowledge is dangerous. Once you know something, you can never be rid of it. You have to carry it always. Even if it pains you."
Liss to Julian & Paige (Pg. 112)”
― The Bone Season
“I watched the silvery light flicker around the petals.
"What does it do?"
"Do?" Calypso mused. "It doesn't so anything, I suppose. It lives, it gives light, it provides beauty. Does it have to do anything else?"
'I suppose not." I said.
Percy to Calypso”
― The Battle of the Labyrinth
"What does it do?"
"Do?" Calypso mused. "It doesn't so anything, I suppose. It lives, it gives light, it provides beauty. Does it have to do anything else?"
'I suppose not." I said.
Percy to Calypso”
― The Battle of the Labyrinth
“-and my point is, there's always something. I think, as a species, we have a desire to believe that we're living at the climax of the story. It's a kind of narcissism. We want to believe that we're uniquely important, that we're living at the end of history, that now, after all these millennia of false alarms, now is finally the worst it's ever been, that finally we have reached the end of the world.
Pages 189”
― Sea of Tranquility
Pages 189”
― Sea of Tranquility
“Mr.Owens had an expression for two things he found equally unpleasant: "I'm between the devil and the deep blue sea," he would say. Bod had wondered what this meant, having seen, in his life in the graveyard, neither the devil nor the deep blue sea. I'm between the ghouls and the monster.
Page 91”
― The Graveyard Book
Page 91”
― The Graveyard Book
“Why do you do that?" Bellatine asked him.
"Do What?"
"You're a compulsive liar."
He popped a fry into his mouth, chasing it with a gulp of wine. "We're all acting, all the time. We have different selves for different people, different circumstances. You play one part for me, another part for Mira & Dad, and another altogether when you're alone."
Bellatine & Issac Pages 172”
― Thistlefoot
"Do What?"
"You're a compulsive liar."
He popped a fry into his mouth, chasing it with a gulp of wine. "We're all acting, all the time. We have different selves for different people, different circumstances. You play one part for me, another part for Mira & Dad, and another altogether when you're alone."
Bellatine & Issac Pages 172”
― Thistlefoot
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