Quotes From "Shadowplay" By Tad Williams

You are only a prisoner when you surrender.
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You are only a prisoner when you surrender. Tad Williams
The world is not full of crazy ninja perfume ladies!
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The world is not full of crazy ninja perfume ladies! Elisa Paige
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You two are children almost grown. Your hearts have not hardened to the realities of the world. Your dreams have not fallen through your fingers. You still know hope. Laura Lam
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There is no one way to be a magician any more than there is only one way to be human. Laura Lam
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A good magician’s performance tells a story. Each act should build on the next, becoming ever more engaging to fill the audience with wonder. It’s a bud that unfurls into a flower, meant to woo the audience. Laura Lam
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Never are we as honest as at night, alone with thoughts and nightmares. Laura Lam
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Your whole life, you are told what is right and what is wrong. What you should do and what you should not do. What makes a good citizen and what makes a traitorous one. What happens, then, when you do everything you are not meant to do? Break down each and every barrier? Find out how good you are by how evil you can be? Laura Lam
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I thought... I thought you might..." "Help you? By my grove, I am helping you. You're not starving anymore, are you? <…> You had a dry night's sleep, too, and you're no longer coughing your liver and lights out. Some might count those as mighty gifts indeed. Tad Williams
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Is it ghosts that truly haunt us, or the memory of our own mistakes that we wish we could undo? Laura Lam
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So many men and women I have wronged, reduced to ghosts and shades. They surround me, but I can never let them know I regret what I have cost them, both the living and the dead. Laura Lam
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I was just thinking how the purr of a contented cat is one of my favorite sounds in the world. There's something so comforting about it, isn't there? Laura Lam