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 Manukhinaidézett3 évvel ezelőtt
“How d’you like your baths?” she asked, solicitously, “warm, hot, or boil-a-lobster?”
Yana Manukhinaidézett3 évvel ezelőtt
“You are young, and in love,” said Primus. “Every young man in your position is the most miserable young man who ever lived.”
Nikolai Tolmachevidézett7 évvel ezelőtt
“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 Mølleridézett7 évvel ezelőtt
(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_idézett19 nappal ezelőtt
Here, truly, there be Dragons. Also gryphons, wyverns, hippogriffs, basilisks, and hydras
_Umaroth_idézett19 nappal ezelőtt
The star tumbled, a streak of light, through the night sky, and it tumbled down somewhere to the south and west of them.
_Umaroth_idézett19 nappal ezelőtt
. I see the evening sky above us, and clouds below us.”
_Umaroth_idézettelőző hónap
In Which We Encounter Several Other Persons, Many of Them Still Alive, With an Interest in the Fate of the Fallen Star
_Umaroth_idézettelőző hónap
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 . . .