“to take something that was meant for good and use it to do evil is a sin.”
“then pain. “Ouch! Blistering son of a scorpion!” I cussed.”
“The dark does not like to be ignored, and its call is sweet like honey, but it will devour you whole and spit you out.”
“Thalia, if you don’t want to be the prey anymore, then you can only do one thing. Become the hunter.”
“We need you to catch up on your defensive training as soon as possible. And I will have to discuss this with the Council.” Her hand went to her hips. “Now remember,” she went on, “you are to go nowhere without Kael, unless he is busy instructing, then you are to either have Captain Garit or Joss with you at all times. Any questions?” I opened my mouth for a rebuttal, but she”
“Down in this hell, silence was more than golden; it was the difference between life and death.”
“He had come to take one of us to Raven. Drips of sweat beaded across my forehead as the footsteps drew closer.”
“attending to the stable boy with the silver piece. I didn’t know why I was acting this way. I kept”
“Ruzaa, stay strong. Never change who you are for anyone.”
“Darren stayed way past visiting hours and Healer Prentiss, not swayed by Darren's good looks, kicked them both out.”
“Ouch! Blistering son of a scorpion!” I cussed.”
“Or maybe it's that you would prefer someone else as your bodyguard altogether? Someone like Joss? Who is probably still hiding in your room, by the way.”
“Mr. Blank's old friend is acting up again, and because our hero is no longer wearing the cotton trousers and underpants and is quite naked under the pajama bottoms, there is no barrier to prevent Mr. Bigshot from bounding out through the slit and poking his head into the light of day.”
“The beast that was civilization ever faced forward, and in making its present world it devoured the world to come. It was an appalling truth that one’s own children could be so callously sacrificed to immediate comforts, yet this was so and it had always been so.”
“Nobody here wants to be awful," he said. He hopped a little as he zipped up. "It's just nobody here knows all the rules yet, and that makes a rocky time.”
“6. Sleep with a bra on every night in fear of your boobs dropping should you forget. Intermediate: Don't wear a bra in the daytime. Advanced: Forget bras and wear the Hear Comes Trouble T-shirt you got for your eighth birthday. Act offended if anyone stares at the new shape of the word Trouble. Wear the shirt until your mother asks what smells.”
“A stone, a figure, a sign, a word reaching us isolated from its context is only that stone, figure, sign, or word: we can try to define them, to describe them as they are, and no more than that; whether, beside the face they show us, they also have a hidden face, is not for us to know. The refusal to comprehend more than what the stones show us is perhaps the only way to evince respect for their secret; trying to guess is a presumption, a betrayal of that true, lost meaning.”
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