Quotes About Rune

Mathachen, the tapper, also brews illicit arrack—not the anise-flavored arak of North Africa that Rune knows, but a tasteless distillate that Rune uses as an antiseptic.

Rune compounds a tincture of opium, arrack, lemon, and sugar into an apothecary bottle and heads back.

I don't see that we have much choice, I said, since we don't have anyone who can grow wings. I will push you off this mountain, Sam warned. All right, Blitzen decided, let's try it. I mean the rune, not pushing Magnus off the mountain.

One of the things Rune admired about Lucy was her impractical curiosity. She was writing notes in the margins.

Aha!" He said. "You've found it?" Fia gasped. Larna looked up so fast she nearly dropped her book. "No." He tapped his finger on a rune. "But this rune matches, here." "Oh, goodness." Larna's sturdy frame seemed to droop a little. "Yes, it does." He passed the magnifying glass over the two texts. "Hmm… hmm. Yes, yes indeed. This word is definitely 'the'.

I'm not to blame, Ramborg, if a man's heart is created in such a fashion that whatever is inscribed on it when it's young and fresh is carved deeper than all the runes that are later etched.

A parabatai. Like he was. And Jace knew, too, what that faded rune meant: a parabatai whose other half was dead. He felt his sympathy leap toward Brother Zachariah, as he imagined himself without Alec, with only that faded rune to remind him where once he had been bonded to someone who knew all the best and worst parts of his soul.

We're Nephilim. Every one of our life's passages has some mystical component — our births, our deaths, our, marriages, everything has a ceremony and a rune. There is one as well if you wish to become someone's parabatai. It's no small commitment.

A rune, hovering like an angel: a shape like two wings joined by a single bar.

He was so obsessed with Michael and all things Halloween that he'd gotten a tattoo of a Thorn rune on his left arm,

This love is a lichen.... etching on the unmoved rock the only rune it knows.

NOTHING APPLIES, I print with the magnetized IBM pencil. What does apply, they ask later, as if the word nothing were ambiguous, open to interpretation, a questionable fragment of an Icelandic rune.