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"A telkhine was hunched over a console, but he was so involved with his work, he didn't notice us. He was about five feet tall, with slick black seal fur and stubby little feet. He had the head of a Doberman, but his clawed hands were almost human. He growled and muttered as he tapped on his keyboard. Maybe he was messaging his friends on uglyface.com."
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"What is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons?"
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"I just managed to go around with one of the Great Spells in my head for years without going insane, didn't I?' He considered the last question form all angles.'Yes, you did,' he reassured himself. 'You didn't start talking to trees, even when trees started talking to you."
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"Life is a dancing dream."
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"The main courtyard was filled with warriors - mermen with fish tails from the waist down and human bodies from the waist up, except their skin was blue, which I'd never known before.Some were tending the wounded. Some were sharpening spears and swords. One passed us, swimming in a hurry. His eyes were bright green, like that stuff they put in glo-sticks, and his teeth were shark teeth. They don't show you stuff like that in "The Little Mermaid."
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"If you ever expect to write fairytales, you've got to get your head in the clouds."
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"Fantasy imposes order on the universe. Or, at least, it superimposes order on the universe. And it is a human order. Reality tells us that we exist for a brief, beleaguered span in a cold infinity; fantasy tells us that the figures in the foreground are important. Fantasy peoples the alien Outside, and it doesn't matter a whole lot if it peoples it with good guys or bad guys. Putting 'Hy-Brasil' on the map is a step in the right direction, but if you can't manage that, then 'Here Be Dragons is better than nothing. Better than the void."
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"At last the magic caught, and she managed to vault clumsily onto it before it trundled into the night sky as gracefully as a duck with one wing missing."
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"Learning how not to do things is as hard as learning how to do them. Harder, maybe. There'd be a sight more frogs in this world if I didn't know how not to turn people into them. And big pink balloons, too."
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"But I couldn't help myself, couldn't help the way I felt as I recalled the bliss and rush of a vampire's bite."
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"When has been disappointed for so long, hope becomes the enemy. One cannot be dashed to the earth unless one is lifted first, and I learned to avoid hope."
Life
"Be very chary of telling your hoarded secrets. Many lose all power once they have been divulged."
Wisdom
"And the world re-ordered itself around me. I spoke each word carefully. 'You are so stupid."
Relationship
"It's not the sort of thing one asks of a friend. He hasn't offered, and I will not ask it. I will not tear him that way. I am trying to let go. I don't know how."
Relationship
"I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with."
Survival
"Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings?"
Mythology
"Think of what is and don't let what might have been distract you."
Life
"I truly wanted to live a life in which I could make my own choices, independent of the 'duties' of my birth and position. It was only when fate granted that to me that I realized the cost of it. I could set aside my responsibilities to others and live my life as I please only when I also severed my ties to them. I could not have it both ways."
Life
"I should live each day as if it were significant, as if everyday the fate of the world depended on my action."
Motivation
"Isn't it strange how wise counsel can cool the hottest head? He made sense but my heart screamed protest."
Philosophy
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