"How do you get on with your father ' Beleth asked. 'Very well ' Pyrgus answered loyally although it was far from the truth. 'I ate mine ' Beleth told him. 'He got old and feeble and useless but he wanted to hold on to power. So I took steps. Tasted disgusting - stringy tough smelly ... you know how fathers are - but it's the custom here. You're supposed to absorb the essence that way. Rank superstition of course but well ... tradition."

Source : Herbie Brennan (2011). “Faerie Wars”, p.167, A&C Black

Herbie Brennan

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“The America I was born and raised in intersected with people of all ethnicities and beliefs and that, coupled with my parents' instilling of good values, made me the individual I am now.”
“Words have weight, something once said cannot be unsaid. Meaning is like a stone dropped into a pool; the ripples will spread and you cannot know what back they wash against.”

Source : Philippa Gregory (2006). “The Constant Princess”, p.387, Simon and Schuster
“It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it.”

Source : Alistair Cooke (2015). “Talk About America: 1951–1968”, p.15, Open Road Media
“When we learn to smile at life, we shall find that the problems we encounter dissolve.”
“One naked star has waded through The purple shallows of the night, And faltering as falls the dew It drips its misty light.”

Source : James Whitcomb Riley (1993). “The Complete Poetical Works of James Whitcomb Riley”, p.147, Indiana University Press
“I cannot deny that on a breezy summer's day, Fishers Island is one of the most idyllic places possible for a round of golf.”
“I think people should have the legal right to hurt themselves without fearing that they're going to get locked up for doing so. But on a personal level, if someone I loved was hurting himself or herself in front of me, I would, of course, try to restrain them.”
“Some of the songs come so fully, it's like they are pre-packaged. There have been a couple that came in the middle of the night. And I thought, jeez, I'll never forget that. And went back to sleep, and it was gone. You'll hear something years later that another songwriter that you respect writes, and you go, jeez, I think that was the remnants of that song that got sent to me.”

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