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"Chapter Six: "Magic is not respectable, sir."
For one, Childermass. However, the footnotes. (If you've read it, you know)" — Feb 13, 2026 12:40PM
"Chapter Six: "Magic is not respectable, sir."
For one, Childermass. However, the footnotes. (If you've read it, you know)" — Feb 13, 2026 12:40PM
“He said he wished you to be wise, and good, and true to the beatings of your own heart, and hoped that you could be spared the extremes of society, both the very poor and the very rich, so that neither need nor indulgence would spoil the soul he loved more than anything else in the world.”
― The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 5
― The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 5
“Hawkes began slowly. “It takes a great deal to trust the future after one is acquainted with loss.” “It feels impossible, for longer than is comforting. And then too tentative to trust.” “It does. But it seems that sword pierced Christ so that we always have a future. Even one different than planned.”
― The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 5
― The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 5
“Kindness leads to repentance, and repentance leads to change.”
― Valley of Dragons
― Valley of Dragons
“He hated sand, hated the way its crunchy granules found their way into every nook and cranny.”
― Cities of Smoke and Starlight
― Cities of Smoke and Starlight
“You don’t just lose a person when they die. You lose a laugh, a look, a touch. You lose a past, a present and future.”
― Cities of Smoke and Starlight
― Cities of Smoke and Starlight
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