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“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.”

“We are going to swim all together like the biggest fish in the sea!”

“Personally,” said Bill, “I think relations are a great mistake.”

But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble’s soul; his heart was waterproof.

“Why, a stag is called a brocket until he is three years old, at four years he is a staggart; at five years a warrantable stag; and after five years he becomes a hart royal.”

“Time is the continuous loop, the snakeskin with scales endlessly overlapping without beginning or end.”

“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.”

“I don’t think it was a lie, Maxwell, do you? I think he needed something to hope for and so he invented this rather remarkable fantasy you describe. Everybody needs something to hope for. Don’t call it a lie. Kevin wasn’t a liar.”

“She had made a vow—a vow to free Eyllwe. So in between moments of despair and rage and grief, in between thoughts of Chaol and the Wyrdkeys and all she’d left behind and lost, Celaena had decided on one plan to follow when she reached these shores.”

“But, I am, after all, a man. And all the philosophic rationalizations I can conjure up do not keep me from wanting you, every day, every moment, the merciless wail of time, of time I can never spend with you, deep within my head. I love you, profoundly and completely. And I always will. The last cowboy, Robert.”