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“A funeral?” I say with mock casualness. “Did the attendees know he died like a girl?” A collective look of alarm presses in on me again. “What in the skies is wrong with you?” Sima Yi cries with a lash of his arm. “Haven’t you realized
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“For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― The Return of the King
― The Return of the King
“Quentin had an obsolete sailing ship that had been raised from the dead. He had psychotically effective swordsman and an enigmatic witch-queen. It wasn't the Fellowship of the Ring, but then again he wasn't trying to save the world from Sauron, he was trying to perform a tax audit on a bunch of hick islanders…”
― The Magician King
― The Magician King
“If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awoke - Aye! and what then?”
― Anima Poetae from the Unpublished Note-Books of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
― Anima Poetae from the Unpublished Note-Books of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“You will always fall in love, and it will always be like having your throat cut, just that fast.”
― Deathless
― Deathless
“I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now...Come further up, come further in!”
― The Last Battle
― The Last Battle
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