“Everything presents contradictions and conflicts. The agonizing dilemma is to discover where life is leading and to have to make a choice.”
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“There aren’t very many people in this world who really know how to look. Usually one glance is enough to register that the grass is green and the sky is blue and so on. They can tell you if the sun is shining or if it looks like rain, but that’s about all. It’s such a pity, for there is texture to everything we see, and everything we do and hear. That’s what I want today’s lesson to be about. I want you to start noticing things. Once you get used to it you’ll never be able to stop. It’s the best game in the world.”
― The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles
― The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles
“How much he could believe of it, he did not know; for he did not know the man, and he had learned to suspect that every civilized man was a liar and a cheat until he had proved himself otherwise.”
― Tarzan the Magnificent
― Tarzan the Magnificent
“At least I'm not lying in a bed, coughing up blood and wheezing my way into Phyre. No one may remember me, but I will enter the gates of light with my boots on.”
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“After my parents left us with Nan and Pop, it took weeks for me to stop feeling jumpy, to get used to living with two people who actually seemed to love each other.”
― An Ember in the Ashes
― An Ember in the Ashes
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