"No, I do my torturing in the dungeon like any other respectable castle owner,"

-- Jeaniene Frost

#Castles Quotes #Dungeons Quotes #Owners Quotes

“Lifting her head, she joined in as the others in the group began to howl in response to Brace's triumph. The sound was . . . It touched the soul, the music haunting, starkly pure and yet so very earthy.”
“How many of us would be able to overcome our desires and resist the temptation of sin? How many of us even lower our gaze when we look upon something that we are not supposed to? The real prisoner is the one whose heart has been kept away from remembering his Lord, and the real captive is the one who has been captivated by his whims and desires.”
“I told him it was law logic-an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in courts of justice, but good for nothing anywhere else.”
“Science which is acquired unwillingly, soon disappears; that which is instilled into the mind in a pleasant and agreeable manner, is more lasting.”
“You can't fulfill all the expectations of everyone you know, so you might as well go ahead & disappoint them & get it over with.”
“Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience.”

Source : "Emphyrio" by Jack Vance, (Chapter 9), 1969.
“The secret to success is to subjugate your ego and serve others.”
“He had black hair anybody could see was dyed, and even had one long piece wrapped around his head in that way some men did to fool no one into believing they weren't bald. I resisted a sudden strong urge to tug away that piece and scream peekaboo! at his bare crown underneath.”

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