“Kiss me goodbye now. And make it impressive. I have issues with my short term memory. - Lily, Seers of Light”
“Do you intend to get any closer or is arm's length the new black?”
“You can throw me across the forest but you can't open a lid? - William, Seers of Light”
“No matter the deviation, all things come full circle. You begin and end your journey in the same place, but with a different set of eyes. - Abram”
“Your attempt at GQ has, tragically, ended in douche-bag. - Anna, Seers of Light”
“From the beginning, the only thing I couldn’t tolerate about you was how impossible you were to ignore.”
“Well, there are also prescribed methods for entering a room. Must you always be stealthy like the ninja?'
Like the ninja,' he repeated, smirking. “I’m that good, huh?’
Come to think of it, you never announce yourself. Just, poof, and "Oh, look, William’s here."'- Lily and William, Seers of Light”
“The truth is, I'd give it all up, the sentience, the endowments, and I'd go back to Scranton and work in that damned store and stock fucking Pez dispensers for the rest of my life if it meant that I could still be with you until I die. ”
“If you’re waiting for my good looks to fade... it’s a futile waste of time. Give up at once. - (Christian Wright)”
“Back to the house.'
The house?'
Yes. You know...the oversized box in which we live?”
“Seek me not in this place, for we all live on.”
“Holding on for dear life, I was overcome with the perfect nearness of him, the ache of human solitude nearly conquered.”
“Some things are better left in the shadows. - Christian, Seers of Light”
“He smirked and that was it. I propelled myself forward and into his arms, our mouths instantly locking in a frenzied kiss, my hands grasping his collar, his shirt, his hair, his anything.”
“Abram: .. One [Sentient] often believes it best to choose the higher path over the companionship of another. But, this circumstance draws to mind a point which Seers might forget to easily.
Lily: What's that?
Abram: That Love is the higher path”
“Taking a step forward, I stood in the light, tilted my head back and closed my eyes. It held my face and wrapped its arms around my shoulders, and for the very first time, I let hope in. (Lillian Hunt)”
“There are innumerable paths one may choose in this life- some that, at first, appear flawed. Yet, if lived with love and honesty, they will always render the greatest fruit. They will serve as a lesson to us all. - Abram”
“He [Abram] believes that the PRESENT is the only real thing and everything else is an illusion
a distraction”
“Quit stalling with the good bits!”
“There seemed to be a purpose in everything—a winding, swaying, knotted, jumbled road that led back to the same door as many times as you needed it to. Until you remembered... (Lily, from Seers of Light)”
“Lily, look and see Narcissus’s true reflection . . . - Abram, Seers of Light”
“The glass doors stared back at me like a secret passageway, moonlight filtering in and adding to the effect. I swallowed again, my heart pounding. What an exhilarating emotion this was. Exhilarating and terrifying. Nothing had ever made me feel so overwhelmed, so ethereal. Of all the new mysteries in my life, this was the most wrenching. Everything would change now, I knew. (Lily from Seers of Light)”
“The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both. (Death)”
“I'm hunger. I'm thirst. Where I bite, I hold till I die, and even after death they must cut out my mouthful from my enemy's body and bury it with me. I can fast a hundred years and not die. I can lie a hundred nights on the ice and not freeze. I can drink a river of blood and not burst. Show me your enemies.”
“...out from the door of the farmhouse came a long file of pigs, all walking on their hind legs...out came Napoleon himself, majestically upright, casting haughty glances from side to side, and with his dogs gambolling round him.
He carried a whip in his trotter.
There was a deadly silence. Amazed, terrified, huddling together, the animals watched the long line of pigs march slowly round the yard. It was as though the world had turned upside-down. Then there came a moment when the first shock had worn off and when, in spite of everything-in spite of their terror of the dogs, and of the habit, developed through long years, of never complaining, never criticising, no matter what happened-they might have uttered some word of protest. But just at that moment, as though at a signal, all the sheep burst out into a tremendous bleating of-
"Four legs good, two legs better! Four legs good, two legs better! Four legs good, two legs better!"
It went on for five minutes without stopping. And by the time the sheep had quieted down, the chance to utter any protest had passed, for the pigs had marched back into the farmhouse.”
“I'd cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it.”
“May I see you again?" he asked. There was an endearing nervousness in his voice.
I smiled. "Sure."
"Tomorrow?" he asked.
"Patience, grasshopper," I counseled. "You don't want to seem overeager.
"Right, that's why I said tomorrow," he said. "I want to see you again tonight. But I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow." I rolled my eyes. "I'm serious," he said.
"You don't even know me," I said. I grabbed the book from the center console. "How about I call you when I finish this?"
"But you don't even have my phone number," he said.
"I strongly suspect you wrote it in this book."
He broke out into that goofy smile. "And you say we don't know each other.”
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