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“The air was already drunk with humidity when I stepped outside on that first morning.”
― On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes
― On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes
“Not wishing, however, to squander my hard-earned advantage, I quickly recovered myself by using the trick of deflection: exerting acute concentration on something innately banal. In the visual equivalent of a fingertip search,”
― The Dead of August
― The Dead of August
“Even if you think the other person has completely misunderstood the issue being discussed or is simply out of his mind, you can still always agree that if you were in his position (that is, if you had misunderstood everything, too, but of course you never say this) you would feel the same as he does.”
― The Art of Reading Minds: How to Understand and Influence Others Without Them Noticing
― The Art of Reading Minds: How to Understand and Influence Others Without Them Noticing
“There are different kinds of darkness,” Rhys said. I kept my eyes shut. “There is the darkness that frightens, the darkness that soothes, the darkness that is restful.” I pictured each. “There is the darkness of lovers, and the darkness of assassins. It becomes what the bearer wishes it to be, needs it to be. It is not wholly bad or good.”
― A Court of Mist and Fury
― A Court of Mist and Fury
“What is a Wanderess? Bound by no boundaries, contained by no countries, tamed by no time, she is the force of nature’s course.”
― The Wanderess
― The Wanderess
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