Emily
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“I am the last of that green and warm-hued world.”
― The Gunslinger
― The Gunslinger
“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“People like these have done more to relieve human misery than any prophet with a manifesto ever will. They number in the millions, these mortals, but they don’t make it into the history books much. They don’t do anything sweeping or controversial. They live their lives, contribute their bits of good work, and die quietly in their beds without recognition or reward. Usually.”
― In the Garden of Iden: The First Company Novel
― In the Garden of Iden: The First Company Novel
“a fierce eagle love flashed in her eyes.”
― Circe
― Circe
“The leaf that spreads in the sunlight is the only holiness there is. I haven’t found holiness in the faiths of mortals, nor in their music, nor in their dreams: it’s out in the open field, with the green rows looking at the sky. I don’t know what it is, this holiness: but it’s there, and it looks at the sky.”
― In the Garden of Iden: The First Company Novel
― In the Garden of Iden: The First Company Novel
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