Even bloody and bruised, he had an odd sort of swagger, as if he crash-landed in giant air ships every day.
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You'd think that in a fight, NOT MOVING would be a bad habit!
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You're a bum-rag covered in clart!
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Oh, this beast? It's...perspicacious loris. 'Perspicacious' meaning 'wise or canny'."
"Get stuffed," Bovril said, then giggled.
"And it insults people," Telsa said. "How peculiar.
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As one does a bear riding a bicycle. One sees it so rarely.
(Spoken by Volger, on Deryn)
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You young things are too easily persuaded by the touch of lips.
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No matter how far from the war we run, it always catches up with us.
Scott WesterfeldThe source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.
Thomas HobbesI wanted a metamorphosis, a change to fish, to leviathan, to destroyer. I wanted the earth to open up, to swallow everything in one engulfing yawn. I wanted to see the city buried fathoms deep in the bosom of the sea. I wanted to sit in a cave and read by candlelight. I wanted that eye extinguished so that I might have a chance to know my own body, my own desires. I wanted to be alone for a thousand years in order to reflect on what I had seen and heard - and in order to forget.
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Night and day, wind and storm, tide and earthquake, impeded man no longer. He had harnessed Leviathan. All the old literature, with its praise of Nature, and its fear of Nature, rang false as the prattle of a child.
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