44 Quotes by Anne Elisabeth Stengl

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    I can't believe in the impossible," he whispered as though trying to convince himself against what he had just witnessed. "A man can't be big and small at once. He can't be a freak and a hero."The cat glared. "Do you believe in justice?"The Chronicler hesitated. Then, only once, he nodded."Do you believe in mercy?" pressed the cat."Yes.""Ha!" Eanrin lashed his tail again. "What an impossible contradiction. Ha!

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    And now all this rot about invisible injuries and interrupting Prince Gervais as he and I don't see what business it is of I can do what I like and I think you're simply and that's that!"Una paused there, wondering if what she'd just said had made a lick of sense. Judging from Prince Aethelbald's face, it hadn't.

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    Tell me, cat-man, why can I understand her?""First," said Eanrin with a glower, "you will not call me 'cat-man' again. I am a knight, a poet, and a gentleman, and you will address me as sir or not address me at all.

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    A dream," he whispered. "It's all a dream.""How metaphysical of you," said the cat. "But we're neither of us impressed.

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    Sometimes a nemesis can grow dearer to the heart than a friend or even a lover. There is something... ‘foundational’ in an enemy. Something that reminds one why one continues to live.

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    Gently Aethelbald lowered his face to hers and kissed her on her charred and blackened mouth. She closed her eyes and felt she could not bear such exquisite pain or beauty.

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    Think something; think something on your own. Not what ‘they’ tell you to think or what ‘I’ tell you to think. You are Leta of Aiven. I want to hear ‘your’ thoughts, for they are neither mine nor anyone else’s. Only yours. This makes them interesting.

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