“The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.”
― The History Boys
― The History Boys
“He grunted; she recognized it as relief that she wasn't going to nag him further about Tor the Just, who probably wasn't that boring if he could hold off the Notherners for nine days and melt a hole in the hills.”
― The Blue Sword
― The Blue Sword
“He will grow up into one of those people who lean back to smile and jump so easily it looks like slow motion and steer cars with their knees and snitch roses from gardens to give to girls and write with their left hand and own two pairs of jeans and one jacket and fall in love from such a height and so hard and so completely that they never quite recover from the drop.
But at least he will have me to look out for him.”
― Forever Rose
But at least he will have me to look out for him.”
― Forever Rose
“Fairy tales make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water. a”
― Orthodoxy
― Orthodoxy
“Belief in mysteries—all manner of mysteries—is the only lasting luxury in life.”
― The Witches of Worm
― The Witches of Worm
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