Elizabeth Knox Quotes

#1. Why do you come here?"
"I promised."
"I release you from your promise!"
"It wasn't you I promised," the angel said quietly.

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#2. I have no particular plan in life - and that's something I rather like. Most things that people do seem to me to be rather dull and silly. In my ideal life I'd be left alone to read

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#3. I don't know what God intends, or what qualifies Him to forgive me,' Sobran said

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#4. Children are uncivilized, so have a staggering power to harm, especially those people whose hearts need mending. In that house an unhappy child was too much rain on a high water table. I poured it on and the terrain liquefied.

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#5. The thought of flight has melted me, I am less solid than liquid, then I'm going up and going invisible like steam.

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#6. So, did you need to hear that? Did you really need to know more?' Xas asked.
'Yes. It's always better to know more.'
'God help you,' Xas said with feeling.

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#7. Don't take this the wrong way, but you seem like the strangest stranger I've ever met.

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#8. Of course, any map of the Place would be shocking to anyone with any understanding of geography. As you can see, this is a map of no earthly geography. -

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#9. He said, 'Don't mind what happened to me. Don't be angry. I'm a frail creature with certain crude reflexes.

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#10. It'll turn out you mean love,' Sholto said. 'At the moment math is the only thing that excites you so you're nosing around numbers as if numbers are life. But in two years you'll be telling me about some boy.

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#11. Happiness had never been like this before. Now it came like sun showers, the sun and the rain together. Happiness was happier than it had been - sharp, piercing, and snatched, like a breath while swimming in surf.

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#12. I guess I should have said that you're a tragic loss because your brains were yours and yours alone. You were the one who could pull the sword out of the stone. And you gave it all up.

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#13. Xas reappeared and showed every sign of winding himself around Sobran permanently, like -Sobran complained - some parasitic vine.

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#14. You fainted and I caught you. It was the first time I'd supported a human. You had such heavy bones. I put myself between you and gravity. Impossible.

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#15. I don't know whether you know this, but there are people in the world with a very odd gift, one that looks like crossed wires. These people firmly believe that every number has a color, and every sound a shape..." pg 273

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#16. Books can be the people we never get to meet, ancestors or far neighbors.

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#17. The geologist, six years ago now, hadn't defied anything to climb the hill. He'd had his own powerful magic
the ordinary magic that extraordinarily interested people always have.

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#18. She said to him, 'You might melt.' And he said, "If I melt, you can make me again.

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#19. Shakespeare had all these sonnets where what he said came down to this: Youth is fleeting and you'd better get married and have children and make a copy of the beauty you own because the world owns it too.

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#20. What no one else sees, no one else cares about.

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