“Just remember, when someone has an accent, it means that he knows one more language than you do.”
“Even when lightning flashes inside them [clouds], we say they are only clouds and turn our attention to the next meal, next pain, next breath, the next page. This is how we go on.”
“If you believe in what you are doing, then you must fight for it. You must stay. Do not let anyone frighten you away.”
“In the end, each of us is alone, but in the meantime, we must all huddle together to give one another comfort and warmth.”
“It's coming face to face with death that magnifies the values of life force..”
“Hope is the greatest gift and the greatest evil...Hope saved us and hope might yet kill us.”
“I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?”
“There - the chandelier, choked with dust and webs. A single rivulet of red had trickled from the ceiling, down the central column, and out along a curving crystal arm. At its lowest point, a new pendant of blood was slowly building.
'It - it can't do that,' I stammered. 'We're inside the iron.'
'Move out of the way!' Lockwood pushed me back just as the drop fell, spattering on the floor in the center of the circle. We were all standing almost atop the iron chains. 'We've made it too big,' he said. 'The power of the iron doesn't extend into the very center. It's weak there, and this Visitor's strong enough to overcome it.'
'Adjust the chains inward-' George began.
'If we make the circle smaller,' Lockwood said, 'we'll be squeezed in a tiny space. It's scarcely midnight; we've seven hours till dawn and this thing's just gotten started. No, we've got to break out”
“For the more a man restricts himself the closer he is, conversely, to infinity.”
“But I will not stand in front of your happiness. I will not even stand in front of misery that you choose for yourself.”
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