"I doubt she likes the idea of seeing him put back in a cage.â€ â€œMaybe not,â€ he said. â€œBut she knows that the Authority are the only people who might be able to help him.â€ â€œOr kill him,â€ I said. â€œThat too. What is life without risk?â€ â€œLong?â€ Terric laughed, a sort of high whooping that made meâ€”and Zayvion, much to my surpriseâ€”smile. Contagious. For all he had a serious exterior, Terric was the guy youâ€™d want to sit next to at a funny movie, just to hear him laugh."

Source : "Magic on the Storm". Book by Devon Monk, 2010.

Devon Monk

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“Every wanton and causeless restraint of the will of the subject, whether practiced by a monarch, a nobility, or a popular assembly, is a degree of tyranny.”

Source : Sir William Blackstone, John Fletcher Hargrave, George Sweet, Sir Richard Couch, William Newland Welsby (1852). “Commentaries on the Laws of England : in Four Books, with an Analysis of the Work”, p.126
“Leadership is knowing what to do next, knowing why that's important, and knowing how to bring the appropriate resources to bear on the need at hand.”
“I'm an extrovert, I like to gesticulate and talk loud and stuff, and the theater is easy for me.”
“I am not leaving twitter. If the mindless few defeat the thoughtful majority we are all doomed.”

Source : "Gary Lineker: I won't let abusive messages drive me off Twitter" by Paul Byrne, www.mirror.co.uk. February 14, 2012.
“For me, it's owning the fact that I have a sensitive disposition along with a rampant imagination that makes up stories and convinces me they're true. I feel things intensely, and that sometimes brings me on wave of profound sorrow.”

Source : "Girls Star Zosia Mamet Shares Why Your So-Called "Flaws" Make You Awesome" by Zosia Mamet, www.glamour.com. January 9, 2014.
“You can manifest the life you truly want with clear intention, emotional intelligence and imagination...like it or not, your life is what you have chosen.”
“A defective voice will always preclude an artist from achieving the complete development of his art, however intelligent he may be.... The voice is an instrument which the artist must learn to use with suppleness and sureness, as if it were a limb.”
“Roger stooped, picked up a stone, aimed and threw it at Henry-threw it to miss. The stone, that token of preposterous time, bounced five yards to Henry's right and fell in the water. Roger gathered a handful of stones and began to throw them. Yet there was a space round Henry, perhaps six yards in diameter, into which he dare not throw. Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life. Round the squatting child was the protection of parents and school and policemen and the law. Roger was conditioned by a civilization that knew nothing of him and was in ruins.”

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