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“The difference between a stumbling block and a stepping stone is how high you raise your foot.”
― Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World
― Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World
“You're so unhip, it's a wonder your bum doesn't fall off.”
― The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
― The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
“King Edmund of East Anglia is now remembered as a saint, as one of those blessed souls who live forever in the shadow of God. Or so the priests tell me. In heaven, they say, the saints occupy a privileged place, living on the high platform of God’s great hall where they spend their time singing God’s praises. Forever. Just singing. Beocca always told me that it would be an ecstatic existence, but to me it seems very dull. The Danes reckon their dead warriors are carried to Valhalla, the corpse hall of Odin, where they spend their days fighting and their nights feasting and swiving, and I dare not tell the priests that this seems a far better way to endure the afterlife than singing to the sound of golden harps. I once asked a bishop whether there were any women in heaven. “Of course there are, my lord,” he answered, happy that I was taking an interest in doctrine. “Many of the most blessed saints are women.”
“I mean women we can hump, bishop.”
He said he would pray for me. Perhaps he did.”
― The Last Kingdom
“I mean women we can hump, bishop.”
He said he would pray for me. Perhaps he did.”
― The Last Kingdom
“As we continued to talk, going through the motions of getting to know each other, I realized that we already did know each other, as well as any two people could. We’d known each other for years, in the most intimate way possible. We’d connected on a purely mental level. I understood her, trusted her, and loved her as a dear friend. None of that had changed, or could be changed by anything as inconsequential as her gender, or skin color, or sexual orientation.”
― Ready Player One
― Ready Player One
“Gods fight, Ragnar went on earnestly, and some win, some lose. The Christian god is losing. Otherwise why would we be here? Why would we be winning? The gods reward us if we give them respect, but the Christian god doesn't help his people, does he? They weep rivers of tears for him, they pray to him, they give him their silver, & we come along & slaughter them! Their god is pathetic. If he had any real power then we wouldn't be here, would we?”
― The Last Kingdom
― The Last Kingdom
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