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01c. 1973 AD

Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.

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02c. 1973 AD

If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it.

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03c. 1973 AD

But it isn’t a rough draft either. The one I turned in several months ago was rough. There were some bad plot holes, some logical inconsistencies, pacing problems, and not nearly enough lesbian unicorns.

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04c. 1973 AD

Only priests and fools are fearless and I've never been on the best of terms with God.

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05c. 1973 AD

Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.

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06c. 1973 AD

We know how it ends practically before it starts. That´s why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack".

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07c. 1973 AD

I was one of those. I meddled with dark powers. Isummoned demons. I ate the entire little cheese, including the rind.

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08c. 1973 AD

Just handle the books gently and you’ll get along fine.

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09c. 1973 AD

There were two sets of double doors leading out of the antechamber, one marked STACKS and the other TOMES. Not knowing the difference between the two, I headed to the ones labeled STACKS. That was what I wanted. Stacks of books. Great heaps of books. Shelf after endless shelf of books.

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10c. 1973 AD

It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.

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11c. 1973 AD

There is a great difference between being fearless and being brave.

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12c. 1973 AD

Once I knew what was bothering me, the greater part of my uneasiness left. Fear tends to come from ignorance. Once I knew what the problem was, it was just a problem, nothing to fear.

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13c. 1973 AD

If you fall, you fall," Elodin shrugged. "Sometimes falling teaches us things too." In dreams you often fall before you wake.

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14c. 1973 AD

What about falling?' I asked. 'If you fall, you fall.' Elodin shrugged. 'Sometimes falling teaches us things too. In dreams you often fall before you wake.

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15c. 1973 AD

I want a magical horse that fits in my pocket," Wil said. "And a ring of red amber that gives me power over demons. And an endless supply of cake.

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16c. 1973 AD

You see, women are like fires, like flames. Some women are like candles, bright and friendly. Some are like single sparks, or embers, like fireflies for chasing on summer nights. Some are like campfires, all light and heat for a night and willing to be left after. Some women are like hearthfires, not much to look at but underneath they are all warm red coal that burns a long, long while.

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17c. 1973 AD

What I personally knew about courting women could comfortably fit into a thimble without taking it off your finger first.

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18c. 1973 AD

There's looking and there's looking. When some men look at you it's a greasy thing. It makes you want to have a bath. With other men it's nice. It helps you know you're beautiful.

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19c. 1973 AD

I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I’m like that. If I stop reading, I die.

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20c. 1973 AD

I heard the silence pouring from them. The audience held themselves quiet, tense, and tight, as if the song had burned them worse than flame.Each person held their wounded selves closely, clutching their pain as if it were a precious thing.

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21c. 1973 AD

I shook again, tasted plum, and suddenly the words were pouring out of me."She said I sang before I spoke. She said when I was just a baby she had the habit of humming when she held me. Nothing like a song. Just a descending third. Just a soothing sound. Then one day she was walking me around the camp, and she heard me echo it back to her. Two octaves higher. A tiny piping third. She said it was my first song. We sang it back and forth to each other. For years."I choked and clenched my teeth."You can say it,"Auri said softly."It's okay if you say it.""I'm never going to see her again,"I choked out. Then I began to cry in earnest."It's okay,"Auri said softly."I'm here. You're safe.

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22c. 1973 AD

Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.

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23c. 1973 AD

Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is yours. Slight her and there will come a day when you call and she will not answer. So I began sleeping less to give her the time she needed.

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24c. 1973 AD

Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse.

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