“Then Darkness took me, and I strayed out of thought and time, and I wandered far on roads that I will not tell.”
― The Two Towers
― The Two Towers
“sorry I didn't text you back for a month. darkness took me. and I strayed out of thought and time. stars wheeled overhead, and every day was as long as the life age of the earth. but I'm good now. how are you?”
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“But it matters” she cried with a touching emphasis. “It matters deeply my darling, deeply”
― The Alexandria Quartet
― The Alexandria Quartet
“Cupertino has a population of 60,000. Is it, then, a city like Siena in the Middle Ages when it helped to create the modern banking system? Should it be regarded as less a city than the contemporary version of a remote monastery populated by devout adepts exploring all the possible names of God?”
― The Language of Cities
― The Language of Cities
“He sensed the future looking back at him”
― Dune Messiah
― Dune Messiah
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