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| 2fbad9a | Audrey nodded warily. She had never cared for conspiratorial female conversation of this sort. Its assumption of shared preoccupations was usually unfounded in her experience, its intimacies almost always the trapdoor to some subterranean hostility. | Zoë Heller | ||
| 7f1731e | There was a time when she would have lingered to hear what amusing or sinister characteristic the woman attributed to the man's Jewishness - what business acumen or frugality or neurosis or pushiness she assigned to his tribe - and then, when she had let the incriminating words be spoken, she would have gently informed the woman that she was Jewish herself. But she had tired of that party game. Embarrassing the prejudices of your countrymen.. | Zoë Heller | ||
| 149244e | There were some people with a gift for conviction - a talent for cutting a line through the jumbled phenomena of world affairs and saying, 'I'm in: this is my position.' Audrey had it. All of the Litvinoffs had it, to some extent. It was a genetic thing, perhaps. Jean had seen a film once, about a troop of French soldiers in World I who were charged with getting a cannon to their fellow soldiers, trapped under enemy fire. For weeks, they ca.. | Zoë Heller | ||
| 18dd7f7 | Sheba has often told me that she thinks there's a rhythm to married life, an ebb and flow in the pleasure that a couple take in one another. The rhythm varies from couple to couple, she says. For some couples, the see-saw of affections takes place over a week. For others, the cycle is lunar. But all couples sense this about their life together - the way in which their interest in one another builds up and recedes. The happiest couples are t.. | Zoë Heller | ||
| d96926e | She was not so swept away that she could not see the high comedy of this spiritual seduction: a Litvinoff daughter, a third-generation atheist, an enemy of all forms of magical thinking, wandering into synagogue one day and finding her inner Jew. But there it was. Something had happened to her, something she could not ignore or deny. And there was a sense in which its unlikelihood, its horrible inconvenience, was precisely what made it so c.. | Zoë Heller | ||
| e2b11de | But I doubt very much that Sheba's comic oddity will actually earn her more lenience from the court. In all likelihood, she'll receive exactly the same punishment as a man. The guardians of gender equality won't stand for anything else. In the end, I suspect, being female will do nothing for Sheba except deny her the grandeur of genuine villainy. | Zoë Heller | ||
| cfc7c5c | I'm a child in that respect: able to live, psychically speaking, on a crumb of anticipation for weeks at a time, but always in danger of crushing the waited-for event with the freight of my excessive hope. | Zoë Heller | ||
| a82d233 | People always seemed to think that you stopped believing things in a single, lightning-bolt moment, an instantaneous revelation of loss. For her, at least, the process of disenchantment had been achingly slow. | Zoë Heller | ||
| 2cb5e04 | Joel, for all his talk of communal childrearing and tribes, deeply resented the idea that Lenny should have succeeded in evoking Audrey's passion where her 'real' children had failed. 'Karla and Rosa are your flesh and blood,' he would chide her. But these appeals to sanguine loyalty missed the point, she felt. If anything, the fact that Lenny was not hers made it easier to love him. As the coauthor of Karla and Rosa, she could not help but.. | Zoë Heller | ||
| b6d05f7 | If this was cynical, then we must allow that all courtship is cynical. | cynicism | Zoë Heller | |
| 68c3a1f | Justice comes from the soul. | Paul Crilley | ||
| 848f69e | Religion that is confined to the sanctuary is worse than no religion at all, for it is false. | C. Hassell Bullock | ||
| a292134 | To read and pray the Psalms is to join the voices of numberless people who too have read and prayed them, have felt their joy, anguish, and indignation. | C. Hassell Bullock | ||
| 615dd9c | What's too late?" asked Mogget. "Hold" | Garth Nix | ||
| aebfac5 | Ever ything? | Garth Nix | ||
| b660a35 | She very rarely cried, but being brave took an enormous amount of effort. Sometimes she just got tired of keeping everything together. | Garth Nix | ||
| b396a89 | Both of them often turned to gaze at Sabriel. | Garth Nix | ||
| d8a9783 | Lunch] was composed of one of the fish she had caught, evidently rescued from Mogget. This had been grilled with ginger, pepper, and some spice she didn't know, set atop a salad of grains and greenleaf, accompanied by a lightly sparkling clear wine she had to admit was delicious and refreshing. | Garth Nix | ||
| 92c4409 | I wonder why she hasn't spread the tale." "The only reason she would not is if she is ill or the story would somehow reflect badly on herself," replied Lady Badgery. "Otherwise, Portia Troutbridge has never been known to keep a scandal to herself." "Oh, I do hope she is ill!" exclaimed Truthful. "I mean, only just ill enough to keep the news quiet for a little longer. Is that too dreadful of me?" "Not at all," announced Lady Badgery. "It is.. | humor tattling tittle-tattle | Garth Nix | |
| 2f35a06 | Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?'" Sabriel quoted, the words, redolent with echoes of Charter Magic, twining around her tongue like some lingering spice." | Garth Nix | ||
| a0a3009 | You can't work in the library without going into the Old Levels," said Mirelle somberly. "At least some of the time. I wouldn't be keen on going to some parts of the Library, myself." Lirael listened, wondering what they were talking about. The Great Library of the Clayr was enormous, but she had never heard of the Old Levels. She knew the general layout well. The Library was shaped like a nautilus shell, a continuous tunnel that wound dow.. | clayr-library epic-fantasy garth-nix great-worldbuilding high-fantasy lirael worldbuilding | Garth Nix | |
| 0a4895c | I feel that you will be a maker, not a seer. You must promise me that it will be so. Promise me that you will not give in. Promise me that you will never give up hope. | Garth Nix | ||
| 23547f7 | In the expectant quiet, there were only the usual sounds of the night. Wind in the big trees out past the school wall, starting to rise as the sky darkened, Crickets beginning to chirp. Then Sabriel heard it--the massed grinding of Dead joints, no longer joined by gristle; the padding of Dead feet, bones like hobnails clicking through necrotic flesh. | epic horrifying | Garth Nix | |
| 348639d | E o caminhante que escolhe o caminho ou o caminho o caminhante? | Garth Nix | ||
| 1022239 | she still felt she was a librarian and always would be, no matter what else she had become as well. "We" | Garth Nix | ||
| faf8ba3 | Music is a great balm. Another thing evil sorcerers give up. They cannot abide music, for it can conjure all human emotions, most particularly joy and happiness. | Garth Nix | ||
| 70bf5ac | Will Morven be a good queen? Um, said Anya, flustered. She's the oldest... Bert's eyes opened wider, questioningly. And that makes her fit to rule? Tell me, in your reading, do you study history? | Garth Nix | ||
| 979afb3 | I didn't know why he became a tree. I don't really know anything about why druids become trees- Peace and quiet, said Elisandria matter-of-factly. Abdication of responsibility. A good long sleep. All of that. | Garth Nix | ||
| b7b058d | Bert and Dehlia had planted the seed of thought in her mind, and it was growing away busily putting out new shoots of thought, all of which were quite bothersome, because they were about things like responsibility and fairness, and thinking about others, and why being a princess perhaps should be about more than just having a nice library and three meals a day, particularly when other people didn't have these things... | Garth Nix | ||
| 8321d08 | Knowledge is always useful, even if...if it is not immediately apparent how it will be useful. | Garth Nix | ||
| 1e23027 | Might have been and could have done, neither worth thinking on,' said Huire, repeating one of their mother's favourite sayings. pg 110 | Garth Nix | ||
| a5f597a | BECAUSE THEY LOOK SO SURPRISED TO BE EATEN UP! guffawed the giant. PRINCESSES ALWAYS EXPECTS TO GET RESCUED. Do they? asked Anya mildly. Better they should rescue themselves. | Garth Nix | ||
| 16bcedc | All things a wizard makes are flawed in some way. A Good Wizard, like myself, will do this intentionally. A Bad Wizard's works will have some accidental flaw, derived from their nature. All our work has some weakness. But why? To limit the object's power, said the Good Wizard softly. Power is always best limited. | Garth Nix | ||
| cf2f291 | I will not give up. It is the right thing to do, no matter the consequences. | Garth Nix | ||
| 3c5ff69 | And your otter friend is eating by ... or in ... the pool. But it is as well that you should check. That is the mark of a leader. | Garth Nix | ||
| a15c719 | You know we do not make such judgments, said Shushu. Business is business. We do not question whether our customers are 'good' or 'evil.' Once we did, said the older witch. When the Bill of Rights- | Garth Nix | ||
| f48e692 | Sabriel sentiu o turbilhao familiar de energia e a sensacao de cair numa galaxia infindavel de estrelas. Mas, aqui, as estrelas eram os simbolos da Carta, ligados numa danca sem principio nem fim, mas que continha e descrevia o mundo no seu movimento. Sabriel conhecia apenas uma pequena fracao dos simbolos, mas sabia o que dancavam e sentiu a pureza da Carta a banha-la. | Garth Nix | ||
| 7409027 | Pause friend, be smelled and enter!"..." | Garth Nix | ||
| f26876d | What's your name? she asked. Street rat, scum girl, you good-for-nought, said the child bitterly. What is it really? asked Anya. ... Why you giving us this? she asked. Because ... because I want to make even a little difference, said Anya quietly. Maybe later I can make a big difference. | Garth Nix | ||
| 609d018 | Choosers will be beggars if the begging's not their choosing," said the Dog." -- | Garth Nix | ||
| 42a5427 | Greencloaks rarely retire," said Xue. "I took a long leave of absence. Probably time to come back. The younger ones are not so well-trained." "Well, we've only just started," protested Meilin. "And we haven't done too badly. We've gotten the Granite Ram, and even though we lost the Iron Boar, there was . . . an understandable reason for that --" Xue laughed a short, high-pitched laugh. "Not you! Olvan, Lenori. Always forgetting my lessons." | Garth Nix | ||
| 5deece2 | How come it's all right for the bad guys to do whatever they want, and whenever I want to do something it's 'forget about it'? | Garth Nix | ||
| 66e95d7 | You mortals arose from the possibility she made and, though she always liked to think so, are consequently not of her direct design. | Garth Nix | ||
| eea7fae | Conor had volunteered to carry it, perhaps hoping it would make the others think better of him. Rollan | Garth Nix |