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"In the dark beneath the earth, Jenny Waynest dreamed of the Dragonstar"

"Tata Ndu clucked his tongue and said we were all very thin. This caused Rachel to quiver with pride and stroll about the house proceeded by her pelvis in the manner of a high fashion model."

"'Tata Nzolo' we sing, and I wonder what new, disgusting sins we commit each day, holding our heads high in sacred ignorance while our neighbors gasp, hand to mouth"

"We aren't all that accustomed to the African race to begin with, since back home they kept to their own parts of town. But here, of course, with everyplace being part of town. ... I didn't see there was any need for them to be so "African" about it."

"Every Sunday we swallow quinine tablets so bitter your tongue wants to turn itself inside out like a salted slug"

"It was ... a race to capture a crucial bridge before retreating German units got safely to the other side, and blew it up.."

"The wooden buildings stood empty and looked hurriedly abandoned"

"... in Germany all the guards stood with their backs to us, facing the people on the platforms."

"Perhaps if two childless, wealthy sociopaths without the ability to emotionally attach, or two childless Buddhists with loving kindness in their hearts, were to get divorced, there would be another kind of divorce, but the only kind I know makes you hurt for a long time, and what's more, you can see the people who rely on you going down with the ship through no fault of their own."

"He gave the sort of patient sigh which I think maybe only dads can give."

"'And all that will happen is doom for us all. Do you understand?'"

"..there was a Hellspawn at large wearing a wizard's body and wielding a wizard's power. There was a Hellspawn at large, inhabiting the body and growing power of what had been his son."

"From high up, just before dropping anchor, he'd seen the horns of of the Tralchet Mountains, white crusted and cloaked in glaciers whose arms ended abruptly in the green back sea."

"From her own seat in the window, Jenny watched him fulminate, her own face outwardly calm but her mind racing."

"Like the prick of knives in her back, she felt the covert smiles of those who walked in procession behind."

"The monastery itself is ruled by five dragons, who are rarely seen. The five dragons will exact awful vengeance upon any city or village, group or individual responsible for the untimely death of one of the monks."

"Yet he could not look upon her, as the elf servant laid her gently on the ground, could not look upon her beauty that was still wondrous without feeling his love her her stir in his heart."

"Whispers that something had gone terribly wrong flew from the temple like great bat-winged birds, their shadows falling over the crowd, silencing the songster and ending the dance."

"'I am ready, Reverend Magus, " he said, and his voice was a paean of victory."

Shivering on the cliff face, his woolen coat sodden and rimed with ice, he realized that he had come to far to give up.

"Gareth was bone tired."

"A chair was a chair. One placed one's ass in it. Was the ass of this magnus something special that it required a special chair? Did this magnus consider his ass better than the ass of the shaman?"

"Gareth was looking stunned, as if he were being pelted by rocks."

""Dagnarus's face was pale, the green eyes burned, burned through the sick feeling in Gareth's stomach, burned through the shock and the horror."

"The shadows moved as the candle flame moved, and it seemed to Gareth's startled gaze that an army of flame and darkness was emerging from the walls."

"'My Lord will use this home as his own retreat, when the vagaries of humans become too much for him to bear'"

"Her shut-eyed smile transformed itself into something else: the smile of someone brave and knowing whose pain had made her wise."

"Sometimes I could figure out what Dr. Shaw was up to and deny him. That delt good: when had men with power ever made my life better/"

"I hated this school - would rather drown than go here."

"'Me and the Canuck. One day he'd love me right and the next day he'd slam me against the wall.' She smiled sadly, shaking her head. 'And I'd let him, too. How's that for crazy?'"