“It’s at your most lunatic moments that I can resist you least.”
“There's more to love than two pelvises in a tussle.”
“Merry Patricia Wilding was sitting on a cobblestone wall, sketching three rutabagas and daydreaming about the unicorn.”
“It’s one thing to watch someone row; it’s quite another to try it oneself in heavy seas, and this was a bad moment to begin wondering if the American privateers on the Good Shepherd would be certain to help her and if there was any chance that Devon might have lied about the Shepherd’s identity.”
“I’d love to see him lay a single strip on her white back. It would be the most potent lesson either of them ever got.”
“he smiled at her as though he had not with a single sentence blown the sane structure of her life into slithering fragments.”
“its muscles white and glistening beneath its creamy hide, its chest broad and heaving, its horn poised and thick.”
“August passed like a dancer, graceful and sweating.”
“The hostage hours had blurred into one another, anonymous as a line of smashed pumpkins.”
“Chopped up fairy wings, the heart of a narwhal taken during a lunar eclipse, spit from a consumptive.… Christ. Just drink it, will you?”
“Because you can't keep up the illusion forever," I say. "No one has that much magic.”
“It's by understanding me, and the boys, and mother, that you have helped me. I expect that is the only way one person ever really can help another.”
“... He was particularly disgruntled to see what he had taken for a bundle of old rags on the tracks outside was a human body. He did not say "Not again" (what he said was "Shit on this"), but "Not again" was what he meant.”
“He took his own saber by the blade and handed it to Alek, pommel first, as if offering it to a victor.”
“Past and present religious atrocities have occured not because we are evil, but because it is a fact of nature that the human species is, biologically, only partly rational. Evolution has meant that our prefrontal lobes are too small, our adrenal glands are too big, and our reproductive organs apparently designed by committee; a recipe which, alone or in combination, is very certain to lead to some unhappiness and disorder.”
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