"Phresine showed him where he could sleep, in an interior room with no windows, a narrow bed, and a washstand. There were chests stacked along one wall, and Costis guessed the dismal spot was probably a closet cleaned out to make room for him. Hard to believe the royal apartments, so lavish elsewhere, would otherwise have such a plain corner. Expecting better of royal closets, Costis went to bed disappointed."

-- Megan Whalen Turner

#Wall Quotes #Believe Quotes #Sleep Quotes

“I don't think any one person is the cause of all of someone else's problems.”
“Discipline is the only sure way I know to convince people to believe in themselves”
“I've always thought of my writing as a spiritual practice. But I think that fiction is the most supernatural kind of writing that you can do because of the ways that the real and the unreal weave together to create something that feels more true than anything.”
“If our constitution had followed the style of Saint Paul, the First Amendment might have concluded: "But the greatest of these is speech." In the darkness of tyranny, this is the key to the sunlight. If it is granted, all doors open. If it is withheld, none.”
“If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser.”
“To mistrust science and deny the validity of the scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.”
“In the 60â€²s there was a look. In the 70â€²s there was a look, and in the 80â€²s. Now, it's a free-for-all.”
“See, heroes never die. John Wayne isn't dead, Elvis isn't dead. Otherwise you don't have a hero. You can't kill a hero. That's why I never let him get older.”

Source : Interview with Michael Carlson, "Crime Time", crimetime.co.uk, 2001.

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