it was a deceptive blankness, the blankness of a rock face that one only realizes cannot be climbed when one is halfway up, and there is no longer any way down
Yana Manukhinaalıntı yaptı3 yıl önce
“How d’you like your baths?” she asked, solicitously, “warm, hot, or boil-a-lobster?”
Yana Manukhinaalıntı yaptı3 yıl önce
“You are young, and in love,” said Primus. “Every young man in your position is the most miserable young man who ever lived.”
Nikolai Tolmachevalıntı yaptı7 yıl önce
“I am the most miserable person who ever lived,” he said to the Lord Primus, when they stopped to feed the horses feedbags of damp oats. “You are young, and in love,” said Primus. “Every young man in your position is the most miserable young man who ever lived.”
Susie Daugaard Mølleralıntı yaptı7 yıl önce
(Fairy Tales, as G.K. Chesterton once pointed out, are not true. They are more than true. Not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be defeated.)
_Umaroth_alıntı yaptı5 gün önce
Here, truly, there be Dragons. Also gryphons, wyverns, hippogriffs, basilisks, and hydras
_Umaroth_alıntı yaptı5 gün önce
The star tumbled, a streak of light, through the night sky, and it tumbled down somewhere to the south and west of them.
_Umaroth_alıntı yaptı5 gün önce
. I see the evening sky above us, and clouds below us.”
_Umaroth_alıntı yaptı25 gün önce
In Which We Encounter Several Other Persons, Many of Them Still Alive, With an Interest in the Fate of the Fallen Star
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He straightened his shoulders, placed the crystal snowdrop in the top buttonhole of his coat, now undone. And, too ignorant to be scared, too young to be awed,Tristran Thorn passed beyond the fields we know . . .