Shadowland
Peter Straub
Top 10 Best Quotes
“You'll never get anything done if you walk around with an unchipped heart.”
“To do magic, to do great magic, he has to know himself as a piece of the universe. A piece of the universe? A little piece that has all the rest of it in it. Everything outside of him is also inside of him.”
“Wolves and those who see them are shot on sight.”
“The face was no longer bone, but animal - the face of a white wolf. "I forbid you nothing. Nothing," uttered the awful face. "You may go anywhere - you may open any door. But, little bird, remember that you must be prepared to accept whatever you find." The long jaws spread in a smile filled with teeth.”
“The wizard stirs, opens his eyes, and looks at the reluctant boy. “Oh, you’ll get your heart broken,” he says. “Is that what you’re waiting to hear? It’ll be broken, all right. But you'll never get anything done if you walk around with an unchipped heart. That’s the way of it, boy.”
“A long time ago, when we all lived in the forest and none of us lived anywhere else,”
“What we do here is physiologically impossible. So we must train the body to accept the impossible, and then it will become possible.”
“Privilege encased them, surrounded them like armor. In the cast of their faces was the assumption that they would never have to take anything very seriously. For the first time in my life I saw the truth in the old proposition that the rich were better-looking.”
“He was having, under trying circumstances, the best time he could, which is one definition of heroism;”
“God, in the orthodox view, causes famine, plague, and flood. Was God evil? Evil is a convenient fiction.”
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