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"'And you sit here, drifting with your sails down. Or can you convince me that you are doing more than twiddling your thumbs and blowing bubbles?'"

"Indeed Roverandom grew to be very wise, and had an immense local reputation, and had all sorts of other adventures."
It is wild that a story written for his children about a lost toy is still distinctively the same style perfected for older audiences in his later works.

"The next eclipse was a failure, for the dragon was too busy licking his tummy to attend to it. And he never got the black sploshes off where the spell hit him. I am afraid they will last for ever."

"'I was foolish once, young man. Would you believe that?'
'No,' I said.
'I was. But Herbie was a mind-reading robot.'
'What?'"

"There was a long journey ahead for everyone."
Yeah 730 pages of it.

"What good does it do risking my life? She doesn't care whether we own an ostrich or not;"

"'What are you going to do now?' Mat asked.
'Something you should like. I am going to break the rules.'
'I meant are you going to get something to eat?'"

"She had found that a kind word and a little praise were usually received as well as silver was, if not better. Though the silver itself was seldom unappreciated, to be sure."

"'Times are not what they were, and we cannot be, either.'"

"'The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills, and the Shadow darkens the world.'"

"'Their fortress that has broken a hundred armies will fall as one of the signs the Dragon is Reborn. Not even the only sign; just one. How that must rankle their proud hearts.'"

"'You break your neck, and I'll see it mended just so I can break it again.'"

"'You do seem to get me neck-deep in hot water. In any case, I am going with you.'"

"Escape was no longer an option, if it ever had been."

"'Nothing is happening the way I expect...'"

"But he had deep steel in him, a kind of gritty, semi-psychotic rage, and a will to power that drove him to do whatever was necessary to get ahead."

"'Take the trail! We hunt!'"

"'I need to leave, and all the gates are barred.'"

"The man was like an onion;"
Hmmm...