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“But this Scroll too has magical properties. From the moment I first saw it, the paper warmed to my touch. I know it came alive as I held it. Did you know there’s a serpent on the back? Some say it’s a dragon. It winked at me. Its lashes are gold.”
― The Alchemy Fire Murder
― The Alchemy Fire Murder
“But to mourn, that's different. To mourn is to be eaten alive with homesickness for the person.”
― Cold Sassy Tree
― Cold Sassy Tree
“You're broke, eh?"
I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.”
― The Big Sleep
I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.”
― The Big Sleep
“...et ignotas animum dimittit in artes, naturamque nouat.”
― Metamorphoses
― Metamorphoses
“I see what you think you mean," said the magician, "but you are wrong. There is no excuse for war, none whatever, and whatever wrong which your nation might be doing to mine-short of war-my nation would be in the wrong if I started a war so as to redress it. A murderer, for instance, is not allowed to plead that his victim was rich and oppresing him, so why should a nation be allowed to? Wrongs have to be redressed by reason, not force.”
― The Book of Merlyn
― The Book of Merlyn
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