“Check out that one at the end. He's taken the form of a footstool. Weird...but somehow I like his style."
"That is a footstool.”
― The Golem's Eye
"That is a footstool.”
― The Golem's Eye
“That did it. I'd gone through a lot in the past few days. Everyone I met seemed to want a piece of me: djinn, magicians, humans...it made no difference.I'd been summoned, manhandled, shot at, captured, constricted, bossed about and generally taken for granted. And now, to cap it all, this bloke is joining in too, when all I'd been doing was quietly trying to kill him.”
― The Amulet of Samarkand
― The Amulet of Samarkand
“Jabor finally appeared at the top of the stairs, sparks of flame radiating from his body and igniting the fabric of the house around him. He caught sight of the boy, reached out his hand and stepped forward.
And banged his head nicely on the low-slung attic door.”
― The Amulet of Samarkand
And banged his head nicely on the low-slung attic door.”
― The Amulet of Samarkand
“True education is a kind of never ending story — a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness.”
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“listen, a goad's anything that provokes or incites an enemy
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let me have a go: cursed deamon! you have met your end! the shivering fire awaits you! i shall spread your vile essance across this hall like... um, like margarine, a very think layer of it...
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ye-es... im not sure he'll pick up on that analogy. never mind, keep going.”
― Ptolemy's Gate
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let me have a go: cursed deamon! you have met your end! the shivering fire awaits you! i shall spread your vile essance across this hall like... um, like margarine, a very think layer of it...
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ye-es... im not sure he'll pick up on that analogy. never mind, keep going.”
― Ptolemy's Gate
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