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- ...That he'd seen...two people, a young man and a woman, sitting on invisible furniture with their feet up, reading books and eating chocolates.
- Who knows but that you will get up to find that the world has inverted itself yet again?
- She pulled the bedclothes up as far as they would go and suppressed a perverse wish to have her old nurse come to chase away…
- If I am the pawn of the gods, it is because they know me so well, not because they make my mind up for me.
- Safety is an illusion, Costis. A Thief might fall at any time, and eventually the day must come when the god will let him. Whether…
- So Sophos thinks you're going to marry me." "While I think you'll marry Sophos." "I might. We'll see what he's like when he grows up.
- One of us might be assassinated and then my heir will be king. Don't give up hope just because chances are slim." "For the assassination…
- You didn't know I could do that, did you?" he asked, conversationally. "I did not, Your Majesty," Teleus gasped. "My grandfather killed a man that…
- The window opened in the same direction as the king's, and there, summer-bright and framed by the darkness of the stairwell, was the same view.…
- She reached out and touched the king’s face, cupping his cheek in her hand. “Just a nightmare,” he said, his voice still rough. The queen’s…
- I can't leave her there all alone, surrounded by stone walls... She's too precious to give up.
- You have to believe him, because he's going to have your entire palace up in arms and your court in chaos and every member of…
- Today, she had yielded the sovereignty of her country to Eugenides, who had given up everything he had ever hoped for, to be her King.
- I cut off your hand. I have been living with your grief and your rage and your pain ever since. I don't think-I don't think…
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- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
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- When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort. — Kevyn Aucoin
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- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
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- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
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