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“To be kin to a dragon, you must not only have a soul of water. You must have the blood of the sea, and the sea is not always pure. It is not any one thing. There is darkness in it, and danger, and cruelty. It can raze great cities with its rage. Its depths are unknowable; they do not see the touch of the sun. To be a Miduchi is not to be pure, Tané. It is to be the living sea. That is why I chose you. You have a dragon’s heart.”
― The Priory of the Orange Tree
― The Priory of the Orange Tree
“The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings. And the sea is precisely their best vehicle...”
― 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
― 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
“Think of all the thoughtless pain we inflict. A mosquito on your arm; you don’t even hesitate to smack it dead.”
― My Dark Vanessa
― My Dark Vanessa
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
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