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“I was a tongue, a gazette. The bearer of "the truth of the whispers." I knew of hollowed books, trunks with false bottoms, and…

— Eva Stachniak

“He stared at me and, though the fate he pronounced was golden, there was a malevolence in his dead eyes. ‘You will be king,’…

— Bernard Cornwell

“I drove home, selected and marked my first series of readings, and drove back to Montagu Square, with a dozen works in a carpet-bag,…

— Wilkie Collins

“If you do shit gold, Father, find a privy and get busy, he wanted to say, but he knew better. --Tyrion Lannister”

— George R.R. Martin

“He'd taken the sword, slung on his back, sandwiches and clean underwear in his pack, and the world, more or less, at his feet.…

— Terry Pratchett

“Amal: It isn't sad. When they shut me in here first I felt the day was so long. Since the King's Post Office I…

— Rabindranath Tagore

“Letters rarely got written in that mine. Work stopped and the whole clan had sat around in respectful silence as his pen scrittered across…

— Terry Pratchett

“where was I? in remarking that me is the envelopes and not nearly so much so, the often foolish letters inside.”

— Edward Gorey

“As Patron-Sponser, I am charged with..."-he pasued and consulted the notes-"adding a sense of royal cachet to proceedings today." He waited while a ripple…

— John Flanagan

“I've provisionally left off any more hasty decision. The only thing that interests me at the moment is the slow complicity of correspondence. I…

— Ana Cristina Cesar

“So there was splendour and wealth, but no great happiness perchance, behind the tall caned portals of Gaunt House with its smoky coronets and…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“The viscountess had raised the forefinger of her right hand and made a pretty gesture toward a stool at her feet. There was such…

— Honoré de Balzac