When he opened the door, the light from within threw his shadow clear across the yard, and for just a moment Tyrion Lannister stood tall as a king.
“He discovered the cruel paradox by which we always decieve ourselves twice about the people we love-first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage”
― A Happy Death
― A Happy Death
“He looked like a man made of graphite, like one of his own black-and-white drawings.”
― Shuggie Bain
― Shuggie Bain
“It was hard to feel the remotest sympathy for any of the different fools she'd been. As opposed to the fool she was being now. People hang on to that one, she thought: the fool they are right now.”
― The Bean Trees
― The Bean Trees
“This experience led me to form a hypothesis: perhaps the wisdom of birds resides, not in the individual, but in the flock, the congregation.”
― Piranesi
― Piranesi
“It is so long before the mind can persuade itself that she, whom we say every day, and whose very existence appeared a part of our own, can have departed for ever—that the brightness of a beloved eye can be extinguished, and the sound of a voice heard.”
― Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
― Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
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