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“We live without feeling the country beneath our feet, our words are inaudible from ten steps away. Any conversation, however brief, gravitates, gratingly, toward…

— Osip Mandelstam

“I didn’t know if we were heading for the gallows or an interrogation chamber. The night had passed without sleep; save for a swig…

— David Benioff

“Does a crow become a salmon simply because it wished to? You do not know the first thing about mortality, prince-who-is-not. Why would you…

— Julie Kagawa

“God, you’re so hot, Irena. When are we going to get together, have ourselves a litter of little kiggens?” “On the first of never,…

— J.A. Konrath

“Damnú air." "You're cussing!" "I refuse to admit to uttering bad words in any language." Patrick grinned and his teeth flashed white. "Jenny has…

— Michele Bardsley

“I’m… “ I stop, at a loss. Griffin lifts his eyebrows. “Inarticulate at the moment?” Scowling, I thwack him in the chest. “Overwrought?” he…

— Amanda Bouchet

“He had a curiously stunted sense of humor and loved practical jokes that veered dangerously close to cruelty. Once on a hot day he…

— Bill Bryson

“Kenzie's head jerked up, her eyes brightening. "Irland?" "Yay!" Razor crowed, bouncing up and down on Kierran shoulder. "Sheep!”

— Julie Kagawa

“ ‘I’m fairly bursting tae ken how ye guessed I spoke Scots?’ Lymond looked up. Superficial pain, withstood or ignored for quite a long…

— Dorothy Dunnett

“Gary nips my finger and starts clawing his way up my shoulder, hissing like an angry kettle. It's just not natural for something so…

— Holly Smale

“I had worried that he might think of me differently, once he learned about my new powers. That the thought of being accidentally roasted…

— Eilis O'Neal

“Colonel da Silva was particularly upset. All the trouble he had taken to lead the crows astray had come to nothing. He felt he…

— Eva Ibbotson