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“[L]et no one rule your mind or body.”

“The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.”

“I’ve found there are very few fights you can’t win with a few whacks from a good, strong stick.”

“His great-grandmother was sitting by a huge open fireplace where logs and peat were burning. The room smelled of woods and wood-smoke. He forgot about her being frighteningly old. She had short silver curls and her face had so many wrinkles...”

“Had we discussed the station of Sulayman in its entirety, you would have seen a matter whose revelation would have struck you with terror. Most of the men of knowledge of this Path have no knowledge of the state and rank of Sulayman. The business is not as they claim.”

“Girls like good-looking guys, and I am not very good-looking. In fact, I sort of look like a pudding.”

“He had to slow down, and for the first rime on the long journey, he began to lag behind the group. Stumbling about blindly, he did not notice the group drawing farther and farther ahead of him. As if by magic, Uncle was suddenly at his side.”

“For all the people who came before us, fighting this fight, I was here, screaming at the top of my lungs.”

And yet - I love you, darling, yet I sat with someone at a table And gloried in our minds that met As sometimes strangers’ minds are able

“I’ve never heard the Queen sneeze. Or seen her blow her nose. I’ve never seen her pick a spot. Or tread on someone’s toes. I’ve never seen her slide upon a slippery piece of ice!”