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“Jutting out of the quartz about four feet off the ground lay the dial pad: a solid-gold block embedded with seven different gems, each for a different quarter of the city, the insignia of each district etched beneath it. Emerald and a rose for Five Roses. Opal and a pair of wings for the CBD. Ruby and a heart for the Old Square. Sapphire and an oak tree for Moonwood. Amethyst and a human hand for Asphodel Meadows. Tiger’s-eye and a serpent for the Meat Market. And onyx—so black it gobbled the light—and a set of skull and crossbones for the Bone Quarter.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Earth and Blood

“intrepid outward exploration of the landscape and a revealing inward journey of the self. These are the things that keep me going, the lust for exploration and the quest to better comprehend who I am and what I’m made of.”
― Dean Karnazes, A Runner’s High: My Life in Motion

“am led inescapably to the belief that the level to which one can empathetically look past the personal to the pains and losses of the wider”
― R.A. Salvatore, Glacier's Edge

“To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge”.”
― Graham McNeill, A Thousand Sons