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I’m alive, ” he groaned. “But I’m not doing a very good job of it.Merrie Haskell
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And turnips - endless ruptured turnips.Merrie Haskell
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Perrotte frowned. “I’d like to turn a plowshare into a sword , ” she said. “I’d cut our way out of those thorns, and then use it to run my enemies through–” She bit off her next words and swallowed them. Sand stared at her, aghast. She met his eyes, defiant. “What? You don’t like bloodthirstiness?” she asked. “Pardon? No. I’m horrified that you would dull a sword on that thorn brake. I could make you some pretty good hedge shears.Merrie Haskell
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The truth is .. . Well, the truth is the truth, and thus worth telling, but sometimes truths are so complicated that it’s exhausting to get them out in the right order.” He glanced up at her. That sounded like an evasion if ever she’d heard one. She raised an eyebrow.Merrie Haskell
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Saint Melor’s father was Saint Meliau.”“Was everyone in Bertaèyn a saint, back in the day?”“ Everyone who didn’t murder anyone, maybe, ” Perrotte said.Merrie Haskell
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The shrine I prayed at not to go to university, ” Sand said.“ I guess your prayer was answered, ” Perrotte said. Sand strongly considered throwing something at her–but there was nothing to hand that wasn’t sacred.Merrie Haskell
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How did you get into the castle, Alexandre, son of Gilles Smith?” Sand shrugged. “A saint kidnapped me from his shrine and put me into a fireplace here. So I guess the answer is, a miracle of Saint Melor. Or so I think. He has not told me.” “If you are trying to antagonize him, you are doing a good job, ” Perrotte whispered. Sand scuffed his shoe at her. “I’m just telling the truth! ” “You’re very good at telling it in the most maddening way possible.”“ Thank you?.Merrie Haskell
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You’re not mending anything, remember, Sand? The hedge.” He paused and shook his head at himself. “And Perrotte’s away for a few minutes, and you’re talking to yourself again.Merrie Haskell
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Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.Franz Kafka
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Favorite Quotations.I speak my mind because it hurts to bite my tongue. The worth of a book is measured by what you carry away from it. It's not over till it's over. Imagination is everything. All life is an experiment. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls the butterfly.Pat Frayne
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People either build a castle or a dungeon. The former by their virtues, pull people into positive edifices with gainful impression. The later by their vices, push people into negative huts with painful oppression.Israelmore Ayivor
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I am going to build a fortress of books. Will you come inside and live with me?Kamand Kojouri
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None of this was what held Yeva's gaze. Because in the bottom of the valley, straddling the river nestled in the foothills, was a castle.Meagan Spooner
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Seeing his daughter slowly die, coupled with his infinite sadness and misery, the clockmaker becomes a recluse to the tower of the castle and begins to build something behind closed doors, not even his daughter knows what he’s up to. For five years, she only sees him briefly at meal-times before locking himself up in the tower once again.."".. Did he have a bathroom in the tower?"" Yes, Jack. A big one! En-suite! Power-shower and spa! Where was I! ?.Jonathan Dunne
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Lollypop...the passion contained merely kissesplaced upon lips, neck and cheekthese young lovers of the castleof which our fairytale speaks...Muse
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Everybody is equally weak on the inside, just that some present their ruins as new castles and become kings —Simona Panova
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This is not one of your fictions where people bleed ink.Terence Paul Winter
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Every great building once begun as a building plan. That means, sitting in that building plan on the table is a mighty structure not yet seen. It is the same with dreams.Israelmore Ayivor
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Man is but lost in wishes, Of wealth, fame and riches, This airy castle he stitches, With logic that are his ditches.Munindra Misra
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Perhaps the palms had been whispering warnings in the sultry breeze.T.L. Parker
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Well, I don't care, " said Bird out loud, said Bird, who cared so much that she couldn't bear to touch the hurt. "I don't care. I ran away from Summer, and I will make my own castle. I will be my own queen.Katherine Catmull
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Yes, your home is your castle, but it is also your identity and your possibility to be open to others.David Soul
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A man's house is his castle.James Otis
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The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.Edward Coke
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My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull! 'Tamora Pierce