“he could see it glinting at his fingertips, ready to be fashioned.”
― Cryptozoic!
― Cryptozoic!
“how far was a feeling genuine if it did not find expression in an external act?”
― Cryptozoic!
― Cryptozoic!
“Better the complexities one thought he knew than the complexities which defied understanding.”
― Children of Dune
― Children of Dune
“When he woke, she was gone. He lay for a long while looking up at the tent roof, wondering how much he cared. He needed company, although he was never wholly comfortable with it; he needed a woman, although he was never wholly happy with one. He wanted to talk, although he knew most talk was an admission of non-communication.”
― Cryptozoic!
― Cryptozoic!
“for nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose—a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
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