Quotes About Geas
Uneasy awareness of his duty to report the truth to the sealmaster warred now with fear, in his heart. Fear and rage. Who placed that grotesque geas in me, and how? Why was I made a witless tool? And can it happen again?
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
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Within the shielded darkness of the President's limousine a geas unlocks in my head, and I can finally remember the message the PM wants me to convey to his counterpart
~ Charles Stross
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The geas Billington's running. It's the occult equivalent of a stateful firewall. It keeps out intruders, unless they run through the approach states in a permitted sequence.
~ Charles Stross
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Only then will her father's geas allow her to turn her ingenuity to more urgent priorities—such as saving herself from her stepmother's murderous attention, partying with cute boy, and performing in Dracula at Whitby.
~ Charles Stross
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the geas in question draws its power from the sum over time of the entire loyal British population's faith in the Crown since that charter was established over four centuries ago. Which adds up to something like ninety million person-centuries-worth of belief. Hence the, shall we
~ Charles Stross
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The shadows' geas bound the mind to madness: already Athera's hope of renewed sunlight might be ruined. Sharp words prodded the Mad Prophet back to awareness.
~ Janny Wurts
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It feels like a geas. It has all the sinister pleasure of sneaking out of the house, all the revolting satisfaction of stealing. It reminds me of the moment before I slammed a blade through my hand, amazed at my own capacity for self-betrayal.
~ Holly Black
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No geas can save you from the effects of our fruits and poisons. Think carefully. I could grant you the power to enrapture all who looked upon you instead. I could give you a spot right there.' He touches my forehead. 'And anyone who saw it would be struck with love. I could give you a magical blade that cuts through starlight.
~ Holly Black
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Her childhood, her life, and she kept forgetting; her mother's geas kept taking it away. Then she was thinking of her mother, seeing her in the clearing on one of her good days, forget-me-not eyes dancing with light. Mother? She listened. Nothing.
~ Nicola Griffith
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Take Carnwennen as the means. Your mate's life as the reason. Our geas as the cost. True love your reward. Remind her of the Wild Hunt.
~ Patricia Briggs
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