David Eddings · 800 pages
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“Refusing to talk about something wouldn’t make it go away. If it was there, it was there, and no amount of verbal acrobatics could make it go away.”
― David Eddings, quote from The Redemption of Althalus
“...most people need to believe in something. There are a few who don't, but they're a bit unusual.”
― David Eddings, quote from The Redemption of Althalus
“You’d think that the people who worshiped the real true God would have better sense.”
― David Eddings, quote from The Redemption of Althalus
“Degrur, that doesn’t make any sense at all.” “I just woke up,”
― David Eddings, quote from The Redemption of Althalus
“Just because I love her, it doesn't mean that I love you less.”
― David Eddings, quote from The Redemption of Althalus
“Some stories have a beginning, a middle, and an end. Other stories never end, maybe because they’re alive.”
― David Eddings, quote from The Redemption of Althalus
“doesn’t make any sense,” he said. It was all he could do, however, to keep from throwing the dreadful sheet into”
― David Eddings, quote from The Redemption of Althalus
“Bheid and Leitha, but he didn’t say anything.”
― David Eddings, quote from The Redemption of Althalus
“You’d think that the people who worshiped the real true God would have better sense.' ~Althalus”
― David Eddings, quote from The Redemption of Althalus
David Eddings
Born place: in Spokane, Washington, The United States
Born date July 7, 1931
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“My husband claims I have an unhealthy obsession with secondhand bookshops. That I spend too much time daydreaming altogether. But either you intrinsically understand the attraction of searching for hidden treasure amongst rows of dusty shelves or you don't; it's a passion, bordering on a spiritual illness, which cannot be explained to the unaffected.
True, they're not for the faint of heart. Wild and chaotic, capricious and frustrating, there are certain physical laws that govern secondhand bookstores and like gravity, they're pretty much nonnegotiable. Paperback editions of D. H. Lawrence must constitute no less than 55 percent of all stock in any shop. Natural law also dictates that the remaining 45 percent consist of at least two shelves worth of literary criticism on Paradise Lost and there should always be an entire room in the basement devoted to military history which, by sheer coincidence, will be haunted by a man in his seventies. (Personal studies prove it's the same man. No matter how quickly you move from one bookshop to the next, he's always there. He's forgotten something about the war that no book can contain, but like a figure in Greek mythology, is doomed to spend his days wandering from basement room to basement room, searching through memoirs of the best/worst days of his life.)
Modern booksellers can't really compare with these eccentric charms. They keep regular hours, have central heating, and are staffed by freshly scrubbed young people in black T-shirts. They're devoid of both basement rooms and fallen Greek heroes in smelly tweeds. You'll find no dogs or cats curled up next to ancient space heathers like familiars nor the intoxicating smell of mold and mildew that could emanate equally from the unevenly stacked volumes or from the owner himself. People visit Waterstone's and leave. But secondhand bookshops have pilgrims. The words out of print are a call to arms for those who seek a Holy Grail made of paper and ink.”
― Kathleen Tessaro, quote from Elegance
“Before I met No I thought that violence meant shouting and hitting and war and blood. Now I know that there can also be violence in silence and that it’s sometimes invisible to the naked eye. There’s violence in the time that conceals wounds, the relentless succession of days, the impossibility of turning back the clock. Violence is what escapes us. It’s silent and hidden. Violence is what remains inexplicable, what stays forever opaque...
My mother stands there at the living room door with her arms by her sides. And I think that there's violence in that too - in her inability to reach out to me, to make the gesture which is impossible and so forever suspended.”
― Delphine de Vigan, quote from No and Me
“And I got a strong feeling of the passage of time. Not the time of clouds and sun and rain and the moving stars that adorn the night, not spring when its time comes or fall, not the time that makes leaves bud on branches and then tears them off or folds and unfolds and colors the flowers, but the time inside me, the time you can't see but it molds us. The time that rolls on and on in people's hearts and makes them roll along with it and gradually changes us inside and out and makes us what we'll be on our dying day.”
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