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“These people seek to control the knowledge so that they can profit from it. Profit from the apocalypse itself.”
― Words of Radiance
― Words of Radiance
“My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.”
― Howl’s Moving Castle
― Howl’s Moving Castle
“When the Dark comes rising six shall turn it back;
Three from the circle, three from the track;
Wood, bronze, iron; Water, fire, stone;
Five will return and one go alone.
Iron for the birthday; bronze carried long;
Wood from the burning; stone out of song;
Fire in the candle ring; water from the thaw;
Six signs the circle and the grail gone before.
Fire on the mountain shall find the harp of gold
Played to wake the sleepers, oldest of old.
Power from the Green Witch, lost beneath the sea.
All shall find the Light at last, silver on the tree.”
― The Dark Is Rising Sequence
Three from the circle, three from the track;
Wood, bronze, iron; Water, fire, stone;
Five will return and one go alone.
Iron for the birthday; bronze carried long;
Wood from the burning; stone out of song;
Fire in the candle ring; water from the thaw;
Six signs the circle and the grail gone before.
Fire on the mountain shall find the harp of gold
Played to wake the sleepers, oldest of old.
Power from the Green Witch, lost beneath the sea.
All shall find the Light at last, silver on the tree.”
― The Dark Is Rising Sequence
“Scared to go onward,” Kaladin said, “but terrified to go back to what you were.”
― The Way of Kings
― The Way of Kings
“It is a burden...(M)ake no mistake about that. Any great gift or power or talent is a burden and this more than any, and you will long to be free of it. But there is nothing to be done. If you were born with the gift, then you must serve it, and nothing in this world or out of it may stand in the way of that service, because that is why you were born and that is the Law."
- Susan Cooper ("Merriman" The Dark is Rising)”
― The Dark Is Rising
- Susan Cooper ("Merriman" The Dark is Rising)”
― The Dark Is Rising
Samantha’s 2025 Year in Books
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