"Ow do you knock out a Denizen?" asked Suzy. "I tried it myself once or twice, but just hitting them never works." "It is not the force of the blow, but the authority with which it is delivered," quoth the raven."

-- Garth Nix

#Blow Quotes #Ravens Quotes #Hitting Quotes

“The epic poet has behind him a tradition of matter and a tradition of style; and that is what every other poet has behind him too; only, for the epic poet, tradition is rather narrower, rather more strictly compelling.”
“There is a power so organized, so subtle, so complete, and so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.”
“If you need to raise funds from donors, you need to study them, respect them, and build everything you do around them.”
“Storms probably exist only because after them we can have a sunrise.”
“Next and hardy annuals are the ones that never come up at all.”
“His grace is cheapened when you think that He has only forgiven you of your sins up to the time you got saved, and after that point, you have to depend on your confession of sins to be forgiven. God's forgiveness is not given in installments.”
“Once you get over the first hill, there is always a new, higher one lurking, of course.”
“I am buoyant and expansive and uncontainable--but I always was so, only I never knew it!”

Source : Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (2009). “The Palace of Illusions: A Novel”, p.360, Anchor

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