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10. the Black Arrow

“Let them be what they will, they can fight,” returned Lord Foxham.
“Help me, then; and if between us we regain the maid, upon my
knightly honour, she shall marry you!”

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09. The Winter Prince

He muttered, “I don’t want your cold.”
“I offer you my warmth,” I said.

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08. The Mabinogion tetralogy

Review: Evangeline Walton’s The Mabinogion Tetralogy is one of the remarkable achievements of twentieth-century fantasy literature: a powerful work of the imagination, ranking with Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings novels.

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07. A Song of Ice and Fire

Tyrion: “I am sorry for your loss as well, Joffrey.”
King Joffrey: “What loss?”
Tyrion: “Your royal father? A large fierce man with a black beard; you’ll recall him if you try. He was king before you.”

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06. The adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Actually, all the Sherlock Holmes stories)

“They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains,” he remarked with a smile. “It’s a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.”

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05. Wuthering Heights

I cannot love thee; thou ‘rt worse than thy brother. Go, say thy prayers, child, and ask God’s pardon. I doubt thy mother and I must rue that we ever reared thee!

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04. Idylls of the Queen

Mordred nodded. “Truth, hnor and valor, King Arthur had tried to destroy me in babyhood, but I understood and forgave. It was not me, myself, he had tried to destroy, but a prophecy.”

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03. Good Omens

God moves in extremely mysterious, not to say, circuitous ways. God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players*, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won’t tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.

Footnote to above: * ie., everybody.

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02. His Dark Materials

I’ll be looking for you, Will, every moment, every single moment. And when we do find each other again, we’ll cling together so tight that nothing and no one’ll ever tear us apart. Every atom of me and every atom of you… We’ll live in birds and flowers and dragonflies and pine trees and in clouds and in those little specks of light you see floating in sunbeams… And when they use our atoms to make new lives, they wont’ just be able to take one, they’ll have to take two, one of you and one of me, we’ll be joined so tight.

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01. Watership Down

I have learned that with creatures one loves, suffering is not the only thing for which one may pity them. A rabbit who does not know when a gift has made him safe is poorer than a slug, even though he may think otherwise himself.