"Unhand my tail!" squealed the Will."

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Source : Garth Nix (2010). “The Keys to the Kingdom #2: Grim Tuesday”, p.257, Scholastic Inc.

“The word 'pure' has never revealed an intelligent meaning to me. I can only use the word to quench an optical thirst for purity in the transparencies that evoke it - in bubbles, in a volume of water, and in the imaginary latitudes entrenched, beyond reach, at the very center of a dense crystal.”
“Oft as by chance, a little while apart The pall of empty, loveless hours withdrawn, Sweet Beauty, opening on the impoverished heart, Beams like a jewel on the breast of dawn.”

Source : Alan Seeger, Amanda Harlech (2001). “Alan Seeger: the complete works”, Steidl / Edition7L
“It takes us long to learn that prayer is more important than organization, more powerful than armies, more influential than wealth and mightier than all learning.”
“In a world where the dead have returned to life, the word" trouble' loses much of its meaning.”
“Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold.”
“What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul I suppose this depends somewhat upon the size of the soul. I think there are cases where the trade would do.”
“We got on a moving train there. That's more of a financing arrangement on that [Dracula] film. It would be disingenuous to say we're producing it. So it was really about getting into business with our partner at Universal.”
“We have not merely escaped from something but into something... We have joined the greatest of all communities, which is not that of man alone but of everything which shares with us the great adventure of being alive.”

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