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Patricia A. McKillip _ Alphabet of Thorn
He was sitting in moonlight and candlelight, scratching the head of some beast that looked to Vevay a cross between a lion and a bear. It had black pelt, a flat, broad, fanged face, a powerful bulky body. It seemed to be purring. It cast a smoldering red glance at Vevay than closed it eyes again, leading heavy against Felan's knee."what on earth is that?" Vavey asked."I've no idea," Felon said. "It came out of an old book I was reading once and it never went back in again. It seems harmless and is very obliging: it let the students practice transformation spells on it. It eats strawberries when it can get them."
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Patricia A. McKillip _ Alphabet of Thorn
his unending ambition to find death and conquer it or become it, which, poets said later, became the same thing in the end.
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Patricia A. McKillip _ Alphabet of Thorn
That sleep that has no language, No dream, No time, No end.
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Patricia A. McKillip _ Alphabet of Thorn
Now the wood in early morning was utterly silent. She walked carefully through damp leaves, around tangles of bramble and vine, trying not to disturb the stillness. She could not see the sky, only green and shadow woven thickly above her, yelding not a scrap of blue. She breathed soundlessly. So did the wood around her, she felt; it seemed a live thing, alert and watching her, trees trailing whisps of morning mist, their faces hidden, their thoughts seeping into the air like scent. It was, she thought, like being surrounded by unspoken words.
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Patricia A. McKillip _ Alphabet of Thorn
I trust the depths don't leak.""No.""Then I'll sleep happily buried in stone.
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Patricia A. McKillip _ Alphabet of Thorn
Easier to understand the wind . . . Easier to walk on the surface of the frothing sea, than to remember the hunger to do it. Easier to remember knowledge than ignorance, experience than innocence. Easier to know what you are than remember what you were.
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Patricia A. McKillip _ Alphabet of Thorn
His face, at once beautiful and feral, revealed no more than the lion's face, which says nothing at all as the lion crouches and waits. It speaks only when it springs.
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Patricia A. McKillip _ Alphabet of Thorn
She {Kane} and Axis performed the ancient ritual of flinging their toys at one another's heads, and in that moment recognized a common destiny. They became inseparable.
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Patricia A. McKillip _ Alphabet of Thorn
In sixteen years since then, she had changed beyond recognition, and he had not changed by a moment, being the same dispassionate, thin-haired wraith who had picked her up with his bony hands and tucked her into a book bag to add to the acquisitions of the royal library.
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Patricia A. McKillip _ Alphabet of Thorn
Every moment is like a wheel with a hundred spokes in it. We ride always at the hub of the wheel and go forward as it turns. We ignore the array of other moments constantly turning around us. We are surrounded by doorways; we never open them.
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Patricia A. McKillip _ Alphabet of Thorn
The message, which one fall or another of the coin would eventually give him, was how to get himself out of his chamber and into Nepenthe's, so that he could tell her why he had not come to tell her why he had not come.
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Patricia A. McKillip _ Alphabet of Thorn
A librarian had found the baby sitting abandoned on the sheer edge of the world; the librarians kept her. That proved shrewd. Nepenthe had drooled on words, talked at them, and tried to eat them until she learned to take them into her eyes instead of her mouth.
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