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My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.

So really, children, mathematically, all of light is invisible.

That air of otherworldliness in the snarls of her hair and the fearlessness of her step.

He feels only the raw, impassive surge of the moonlight as it strikes the tent above him and scatters.

But minds are not to be trusted. Minds are always drifting toward ambiguity, toward questions, when what you really need is certainty. Purpose. Clarity. Do not trust your minds.

A dozen pigeons roosting on the cathedral spire cataract down its length and wheel out over the sea.

Minds are always drifting toward ambiguity, toward questions, when what you really need is certainty. Purpose. Clarity. Do not trust your minds.

His thoughts skirted Sandy and especially Grace as if they were fatal chasms into which he might tumble.

He knows the transmitter must be high in the house. Close to the shelling. He says, "I saved her only to hear her die.

Beneath their wimples the faces of the nuns of the order resemble dried thistles

Why, even at the moment of his escape, must some inexplicable warning murmur in a distant region of his mind?

So really, children, mathematically, all the light is invisible

Stillness: this is what he radiates more than anything else. The stillness of a tree. Of a mouse blinking in the dark.

Bastian speaks to a horror of any sort of corruption, and yet, Werner wonders in the dead of night, isn't life a kind of corruption?

Aethon doesn't read to the end of the book?" "That's how he writes his story on the tablets," says Rachel. "How they get buried in the tomb with him. Because he doesn't stay in Cloud Cuckoo Land. He chooses… What's the word, Mr. Ninis?

the space going a bit redder as the August day above them progresses toward dusk.

Ignorance was, in the end, and in so many ways, a privilege.

The first good news for all of us, the first joyful story of our lives, is that there is a story at all, and an Author who has loved us into being.

From his childhood on he had had an obstinate nature and his name became a byword for virtue and truthfulness. "That's incredible, even if Cato says so," was a common expression.

Rome was an evolutionary society, not a revolutionary one. Constitutional crises tended to lead not to the abolition of previous arrangements but to the accretion of new layers of governance.

Caesar remarked that Cicero had won greater laurels than those worn by a general in his Triumph, for it meant more to have extended the frontiers of Roman genius than of its empire.

and he had been discreetly invaluable in Illyricum.

the boy was given the signal honor of delivering a eulogy at her funeral.

It commanded an empire stretching from Spain (which it had inherited from the Carthaginians nearly a century before)