“Such abilities are the true gifts of the spirit, my daughter.”
― Stoneslayer: Book One Scandal
― Stoneslayer: Book One Scandal
“And the answers she was seeking were on full display, right in front of her.
Not chaos. Not blood. Not even sound.
Just clarity.”
― The Dog Walker: The Prequel
Not chaos. Not blood. Not even sound.
Just clarity.”
― The Dog Walker: The Prequel
“There’s so many reasons why!”
― Debbie Wants No Words
― Debbie Wants No Words
“If we attempt to explain, in an easily accessible and clear way, how positive and negative actions affect the filling and decreasing of their life ether, we can state that physically it depends on their intentions.”
― The Pythagorean
― The Pythagorean
“For the next half hour it continued. Dr. Joseph would call on someone who looked half bright, then he would call on someone whom he felt was just the opposite. In the upper grades—fourth, fifth, and sixth—he asked grammatical, mathematical, and geographical questions. And besides looking at hands, now he began inspecting teeth. Open wide, say “Ahhh”—and he would have the poor children spreading out their lips as far as they could while he peered into their mouths. At the university I had read about slave masters who had done the same when buying new slaves, and I had read of cattlemen doing it when purchasing horses and cattle. At least Dr. Joseph had graduated to the level where he let the children spread out their own lips, rather than using some kind of crude metal instrument. I appreciated his humanitarianism.”
― A Lesson Before Dying
― A Lesson Before Dying
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