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"An insect scrambled through a nest of pulpy veins and squirmed underneath the tumor. Emma had tried to avoid looking at that. She'd had nightmares about it these last few weeks. In her dreams it pulsed and throbbed, and sometimes sang to her, though there were never any words when it was singing. One night she'd dreamed she held it in her arms and sang a lullaby to it" - Alan Rodgers p. 390

"An insect scrambled through a nest of pulpy veins and squirmed underneath the tumor. Emma had tried to avoid looking at that. She'd had nightmares about it these last few weeks. In her dreams it pulsed and throbbed, and sometimes sang to her, though there were never any words when it was singing. On night she'd dreamed she held it in her arms and sang a lullaby to it" - Alan Rodgers p. 390

"what doth my soul profit me, if it stand between me and the thing that I love?" - Oscar Wilde p.328

"We've strayed into a zone with a high magical index," (Rincewind) said. "Don't ask me how. Once upon a time a really powerful magic field must have been generated here, and we're feeling the aftereffects."

"Precisely," said a passing bush.

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"The only dancers to such a tempo were those who writhed through the hottest pits of Hades. How long could I endure it? How much punishment could my sensory system withstand? For the music affected not only my hearing - it set my teeth on edge - it crept into my eyes like thick smoke - it rippled my flesh with horror - it filled my mouth with a taste that brought me to the verge of retching..." - Dark Music by J Snow

"The world never wants for witches." - p. xii

"...not many years ago, and throughout all of human history before that, the majority of funerals were for babies and children." - p.253

"But to say that Pandora's box (scientific discovery) should remain shut is not the answer. To do so would be to miss out on many treasures. Take care. But do open the box." - p.264

"But unlike humans, even the most intelligent animals don't worry about the possibility of being wiped out in a terrible catastrophe...we are all too aware how, as a race, we might be wiped out." - page 1

"But unlike humans, even the most intelligent animals don't worry about the possibility of being wiped out in a terrible catastrophe...we are all too aware how, as a race, we might be wiped out." - page 1

"Under the earth's crust there exists such an enormously great world, in absolute darkness, that we can with some justice speak of a new continent." - Alfred Bogli p. 160

"...the clay of one Austrian cave yielded the remains of no fewer than 30,000 (cave) bears." - page 122

"...the clay of one Austrian cave yielded the remains of no fewer than 30,000 (cave) bears." - page 122

"...superstitious rustics usually greeted 'the gentleman who traveled into holes' with considerable trepidation, perhaps believing he was tempting the devil...'The old women would cross themselves,' he (famous caver Martel) reported, 'and mumble between paternosters: "You may go down if you like, but you will never come back." ' " - page 52

" 'There is nothing more powerful than this attraction toward an abyss.' " - Jules Verne

"Yes, 'The voice of Reason is soft.' But it is very persistent." p. 296

"Yes, 'The voice of Reason is soft.' But it is very persistent." p. 296

"... if triangles had gods their gods would have three sides, just as Thracian gods had blond hair and blue eyes." -p . 255

A "...hideous din of compulsory enthusiasm..." - a description of North Korea on page 248

"We cannot, like fear-ridden peasants of antiquity, hope to load all our crimes onto a goat and then drive the hapless animal into the desert"..."And religion is scapegoating writ large." p.211

"Pythagoras refuted astrology by the simple means of pointing out that identical twins do not have the same future." - p. 74

"Pythagoras refuted astrology by the simple means of pointing out that identical twins do not have the same future." - p. 74

Years later he [Darwin] would come to the conclusion: The tree of life should perhaps be called the coral of life.