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On Looking: A Walker's Guide to the Art of Observation by Alexandra Horowitz

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At the steps to our building, my son roared in recognition and prepared himself to step up. I looked at this small, wondrous boy facing a too-high stair and lifting his knee to his chin to climb it. I held his hand tighter. This was a walk ...more

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“Does he have ears like a bunny, too?” “He does, yes.” For once the druin didn’t bridle at the association. “But his are droopy, because he is very old.” Cura found a smirk and slapped it on. “You know what else droops when it gets old?” “What?” Wren chirped. “Yes, please,” said Freecloud dryly. “Tell my five-year-old daughter what else droops when it gets old.” “Oh … um …” Cura wilted under the druin’s glare. “Flowers?”
― Nicholas Eames, Bloody Rose

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“Some people knew how to kill a conversation. Cura, on the other hand, could make it wish it had never been born.”
― Nicholas Eames, Bloody Rose

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“It's always the books you don't have that call to you, you know that. Not the ones on your shelf. They can wait.”
― Mark Lawrence, The Book That Wouldn’t Burn

tags: books, collecting-books, the-book-that-wouldn-t-burn

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“At what point have you ever gotten the impression that there are good people in the royal cabal?"

"You've given me that impression. Yes. You have."

"Well, get past it. Because I'm not a good man. Not in the slightest. I just pay my debts.”
― Brian McClellan, The Crimson Campaign

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“Conthas burned to the ground. Apparently, this is a regular occurrence. Every few decades or so a fire goes unchecked and razes the entire city to ash. The locals think of it as a time of renewal. A chance to start over, to sweep away the old and build something new.

New taverns, for instance. New pubs, new scratch-dens; new gambling holes and fighting pits. New ale-houses, dice-houses, tap-houses, and whore-houses. From what I understand, Conthas is like some drug-addled, sex-crazed, booze-swilling phoenix that refuses to stay dead.”
― Nicholas Eames, Bloody Rose

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