“Mithorden:
I would rather live than die. I would rather die than survive as a monster.”
― Robert Fanney, quote from The War of Mists
“The wolf was not far away. After only a short time, he crested a nearby hill. His eyes blazing yellow fire. Fierce. For his mistress called. There she knelt. Queenly and yet so wild. Arrow set to bow - spilling out a bloody light.
At the sight of her, passion filled him. It rose in his gut, swelled his chest, then burst out of his throat. It overwhelmed the air and beat against the starry roof. The howl filled the mounds, rang out through the Vale and then rolled into Minonowe.
She had called him and here was his answer.
The spiders were out there. Running. With Luthiel, he would hunt them.”
― Robert Fanney, quote from The War of Mists
“You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it however.”
― Richard Bach, quote from Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
“Minho looked at Thomas, a serious expression on his face, "if I don't see you on the other side," he said in a sappy voice, "remember that I love you." Snickering at Thomas's eye roll, he went through the doors and they closed.”
― James Dashner, quote from The Death Cure
“You know children, always playing with the forces of darkness.”
― Kelley Armstrong, quote from The Reckoning
“Like a mermaid rising from an ocean of paper, the girl emerged across the room.”
― Brian Selznick, quote from The Invention of Hugo Cabret
“That we were slaves I had known all my life--and nothing could be done about it. True, we weren't bought and sold--but as long as Authority held monopoly over what we had to have and what we could sell to buy it, we were slaves.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, quote from The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
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