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‘Because you are deducing from things that you have seen. Nothing can be so misleading as observation.’
“The Darkling slumped back in his chair. “Fine,” he said with a weary shrug. “Make me your villain.”
― Shadow and Bone
― Shadow and Bone
“Hmm. It's a scary shadow, you say?"
"They're all scary. Even if you make a nice one, like a kitten, it'll turn into a man-eating tiger or something. It's like they're trying to be scary."
"That makes sense."
Morrigan was surprised. "Does it?"
"Shadows are shadows, Miss Crow." His eyes reflected the moonlight. "They want to be dark.”
― Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow
"They're all scary. Even if you make a nice one, like a kitten, it'll turn into a man-eating tiger or something. It's like they're trying to be scary."
"That makes sense."
Morrigan was surprised. "Does it?"
"Shadows are shadows, Miss Crow." His eyes reflected the moonlight. "They want to be dark.”
― Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow
“Not a queen," said Dany. "A khaleesi.”
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“I abhorred weakness of any kind but most particularly in my tea.”
― A Curious Beginning
― A Curious Beginning
“Intellectual freedom is essential to human society—freedom to obtain and distribute information, freedom for open-minded and unfearing debate, and freedom from pressure by officialdom and prejudices. Such a trinity of freedom of thought is the only guarantee against an infection of people by mass myths, which, in the hands of treacherous hypocrites and demagogues, can be transformed into bloody dictatorship.”
― The CIA Book Club: The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War with Forbidden Literature
― The CIA Book Club: The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War with Forbidden Literature
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