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She looked at the Widower. She looked at the desk. She found herself swallowing. Her eyes fixed on the brass nameplate screwed into a low-slung wooden prism. The name was picked out in fancy gold letters: CAROL L. P. WIDDENER. Anyone who
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“Actors are liars. Writers, too. The whole lot of them, even the horn players and the fortune-tellers and the freaks and the strongmen. Even the ladies with rings in their noses and high heels on their feet playing violins all along the Pier and the lie they are all singing and dancing and saying is We can get the old world back again.”
― The Past Is Red
― The Past Is Red
“All the hair dye diluted itself into the sea a long time ago and I hope the jellyfish enjoyed their time as platinum blondes, I really and honestly do.”
― The Past Is Red
― The Past Is Red
“She was surprised into looking into the Beast's face.
The contrasts she found there were too great: wisdom and despair, power and weakness, man and animal. These made him far more terrible than any hungry lion, any half-tamed hydra, any angry sorcerer, terrible as something that should not exist is terrible, because to recognise that it does exist shakes that faith in the foundations of the natural world which human beings must have to bear the burden of their rationality.”
― Rose Daughter
The contrasts she found there were too great: wisdom and despair, power and weakness, man and animal. These made him far more terrible than any hungry lion, any half-tamed hydra, any angry sorcerer, terrible as something that should not exist is terrible, because to recognise that it does exist shakes that faith in the foundations of the natural world which human beings must have to bear the burden of their rationality.”
― Rose Daughter
“Weather here in this part of the world is just as moody, just as subjective and disloyal, as people.”
― Trumpet
― Trumpet
“You’re a cynical kid,” said Trebastion.
“You make harps out of dead people,” said Oliver.
“Yes, but I haven’t allowed it to taint my basic optimism.”
― Minor Mage
“You make harps out of dead people,” said Oliver.
“Yes, but I haven’t allowed it to taint my basic optimism.”
― Minor Mage
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