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I am like glass to him, like water, Hannah thought to herself, alone now in the music room, heart racing. He sees through me, but how? Page: 97
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The path is a ribbon of moonlight across a dusky sea. The wind sings a song that beckons us To that great and mighty tree. We are the Greenowls of Ambala, clad in raiments of moss, Sprigged with lichens and grasses Then gilded with silvery frost. Fair and square we play- for a sporting lot we are. We ride the boisterous Balefire gusts And we reach for every star.
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I am like glass to him, like water . .
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Indeed, nobility is not always found in the flash of battle claws or flying through the embered wakes of firestorms, or even in making strong the weak, mending the broken, vanquishing the proud, or making powerless those who abuse the frail." Soren's gizzard grew quiet as Boron spoke. "It is also found in the resolute heart, the gizzard that can withstand the temptations of false dreams, the mind that has the imagination to comprehend anoth..
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Set your wings upon the sea wind Set your eyes upon the stream Feel the billow of the updraft And believe in your dream Know the mercy of these waters Know the safety of the sky Hear the voices in the distance And believe - they will not lie.
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At the edge of the avalanche At the glacier's icy rim Grows the flower of the snowfields Trembling in the wintry wind. It dares to live in edges Where naught else would ever grow. So fragile, so unlikely An owl slices through this blow. She dares the katabats Her gizzard madly quivers, But for her dearest of friends She vows she shall deliver. Like the lily of the avalanche The glacier's icy rose Like a flower of the wind The bright fiercen..
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Young'uns!" Mrs. P. interrupted. "No bad language, not at the table, please. And need I remind you, I am the table!" --
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Night is Done-- Night is done, gone the moon, gone the stars From the skies. Fades the black of the night Comes the morn with rosy light. Fold your wings, go to sleep, Rest your gizzards, Safe you'll be for the day. Glaux is nigh. Far away is First Black, But it shall seep back Over field Over flower In twilight hour. We are home in our tree. We are owls, we are free. As we go, this we know Glaux is nigh.
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If that animal claims not to be frightened, then that animal is a liar. The real hero is the animal who fights even though scared. That is courage. There can be no courage without fear.
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Death bears with it a stain that seeps into the hollow and fills the mind.
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URSKADAMUS TINE SMYORFIN MASACH!" Edme wasn't sure what to believe now -- her ears or her eye? There was only one wolf who swore in both the language of bears and that of Old Wolf. "Faolan?" "Who else, for the love of Lupus? One would think you saw a ghost." "But with all that frost -- you look like a lochin." Faolan gave a dismissive bark. "You should see yourself," Edme persisted. "You've got icicles hanging from your chin fur. Your belly..
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Soren had been at the Great Ga'Hoole Tree for almost a month,
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Krolik, ia dazhe ne znaiu, kak tebia zovut. U tebia est' imia? -- Zovi menia prosto Krolik, -- otvetil krolik.
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Tak povernites' zhe skoree i rasskazhite mne vse o sebe! -- Prostite, -- tikhon'ko zakurlykal Korin, staraias' ne rassmeiat'sia. -- No ia, kazhetsia, nemnogo zastrial. -- Vy ne sochtete menia izlishne famil'iarnoi, esli ia slegka potianu vas za khvost? -- Net-net, ni v koem sluchae! Budu vam ochen' priznatelen. -- Ia popytaius' sdelat' eto ochen' ostorozhno, chtoby ne potianut' vashi khvostovye per'ia. -- Ne bespokoites', pozhaluista. Chast..
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If you are not for yourself, who will be for you? If you are only for yourself, what are you? If not now, when? -Rabbi Hillel
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We are the owls of the weather chaw. We take it blistering, We take it all. Roiling boiling gusts, We're the owls with the guts. For blizzards our gizzards Do tremble with joy. An ice storm, a gale, how we love blinding hail. We fly forward and backward, Upside down and flat. Do we flich? Do we wail? Do we skitter or scutter? No, we yarp one more pellet And fly straight for the gutter! Do we screech? Do we scream? Do we gurgle? Take pause? ..
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The time has come, The claws are passed. An old owl rests, A die's been cast. It is a war for heart, Gizzard and mind. The weapons they wield, More deadly than mine. A blade draws blood, a fire burns. But with the flecks, a mind unlearns. A soul unhinges, And then a gizzard quakes and cringes. Senses dull, Reason scatters. The heart grows numb, An owl shatters. But these six owls are strong and bold, And their story has not yet been told.
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Then Otulissa swelled up to twice her normal size. "Well, SPRINK ON YOUR SPRONK!"
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She did not want to say good-bye. She did not want to utter those two dead-sounding words. She turned to look at her taiga. "It's never good-bye, Edme," said Winks. "It's merely slaan boladh." "Slaan boladh?" Edme repeated.
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My own brother. My very own brother is Metal Beak and he wants to kill me.
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No" was most definitely Faolan's favorite word. "No" and "More milk."
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I have always believed that there is more goodness than evil in the world.
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I am a Guardian of Ga'Hoole. From this night on I dedicate my life to the protection of owlkind. I shall not swerve in my duty. I shall support my brother and sister Guardians in times of battle and in times of peace. I am the eyes in the night, the silence within the wind. I am the talons through the fire, the shield that guards the innocent. I shall seek to wear no crown, nor win any glory. And all these things I do swear upon my honor as..
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I will go to the Ring of Sacred Volcanoes, but I shall go not as a member of the MacHeath clan -- no, I shall go as a free runner. I reject you. I deny you, I refuse and repudiate you as my clan.
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It dawned on her in that moment that what she had loved so much when she heard the harp's music and then began to play in the midst of the storm was this sense or suggestion of a place, a world without such rules. A place where boundaries simply did not exist, but living things moved freely, in a limitless space, and yet were still connected to everything in much the same way the harp's music enveloped all the people in the music room last ..
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Menschmik.
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FACTS ABOUT UNICORNS
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For there is a new place for those who are willing, who are able, who are strong. We are going west. There is, I believe, a new world somewhere waiting. The moon that shines here will shine there, but here the land is broken and there it is whole.
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and die, die without anyone ever knowing.
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congregations of owls seemed to be below, along with a hollow that was called a kitchen, from
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One of the vilest secrets of the MacHeaths was that they would purposely maim young pups, hoping to gain a place in the Watch of the Sacred Volcanoes.
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Gwynneth had gone to his forge and set
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I'm naked under this dress. Naked as a jaybird," she said pointedly and looked at the matron. "Oh, my! She'll have to be broken!" Mrs. Phillips said and smiled. "Well, dear, we're the rodeo capital of Kansas. Bronco busting is our specialite." She pronounced the word in a foreign sounding way."
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Legends were not only for the desperate. Legends were for the brave.
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All for owls and owls for all!
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gaddergludder,
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Lupus Star Wolves (the spirits of dead wolves who have traveled to the Cave of Souls) air ceilidh fyre (lightning) chieftains (clan leaders) lords (pack leaders) skreeleens byrrgis leaders captains lieutenants sublieutenants corporals packers gnaw wolves unranked Obeas owls other four-legged animals other birds, except owls plants earth fire water
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the end of the world as they knew it.
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For those who believe.
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Barn Owls were known for their extremely sensitive hearing. They could contract and expand the muscles of their facial disks to funnel the sound source to their unevenly placed earholes.
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Soren had been given the number 82-85. He couldn't remember what his previous number had
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Nettie turned her eyes toward me. "Bookworm, are you?" The way she said that word absolutely made my skin crawl. She made me sound like I was some spineless, mindless creature living on mold underground. I do love books, but there is nothing wormy about it. I would much prefer to be called a bat than a worm any day of the week. Just that afternoon at the library storytime, Nancy had read a beautiful poem about a baby bat being born. It desc..
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Cag maglosc," Faolan muttered, and then launched into what sounded to Edme like a string of Old Wolf curse words."
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