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“heresies are not like clothing styles or beards, my lord, to go in and out of fashion by the season or the year.” Alixana”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, Sailing to Sarantium

“The night was alive. So thickly was the snow falling that, brushing against a human face in its descent, it resembled the fur of a great beast. The fur was less cold than suffocating: it occupied space normally taken up by air and sound. But when the sledge stopped, the staid brazen tongue of a bell could be distantly heard.”
― Brian W. Aldiss, Helliconia Winter

“The skill I was learning was a crucial one, the patience to read things I could not yet understand.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“EVENTUALLY, MORNING CAME. Morning always comes. There are always losses in the night, a price paid for light.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, Lord of Emperors