5 Quotes by Jacquelyn Benson

  • Author Jacquelyn Benson
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    He remembered the flames and the silence and in a moment of wisdom understood what the power he contemplated was in truth: a great mouth, hungry and merciless, that would devour the world if it could. Because no cause stood in absolute justice, and every victory came with a price paid in blood.

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    On the horizon, the dark line of the mountains was almost invisible, lost in the haze of late afternoon. Somewhere in their midst lay the goal of her map, the possible location of a stunning archaeological discovery. However far away those peaks might look today, they were there, and that meant they could be reached, one way or another.

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    All of science had seemed like magic once, before years of painstaking study had revealed the secret rules that governed atoms, motion, and the void between.

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