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Wars plagued the mainland, Broccan said. Kings always fighting and at each other’s throats. Priests and monks telling the people how to live. To exist in such a place required a mask, he had told me. And you could not be free if you could
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“I'm not going to die," she said. "Not till I've seen it."
"Seen what?"
Her smile widened. "Everything.”
― A Darker Shade of Magic
"Seen what?"
Her smile widened. "Everything.”
― A Darker Shade of Magic
“Memory is a double-edged sword, Uthas. It can keep you strong through dark times, but it can also cripple you, keep you locked in a moment that no longer exists.”
― Valor
― Valor
“There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad Humanity may assume the semblance of a Hell-but the imagination of man is no Carathis, to explore with impunity its every cavern. Alas! the grim sepulchral terrors cannot be regarded as altogether fanciful-but, like the Demons in whose company Afrasiab made his voyage down the Oxus, they must sleep, or they will devour us-they must be suffered to slumber, or we perish.”
― The Premature Burial
― The Premature Burial
“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
― A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North America
― A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North America
“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
― The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
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