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Я бы убил его до смерти и гнался за ним через всю его следующую жизню, чтобы убить ещё раз, и снова, и вдругорядь, и ещё один рядь, ибо всем грехам грех - истребить целый народ, и только одной лишь смертью его не искупишь.

Просто диву даёшься, сколько пользы от ярости, если приберечь её до того часа, когда она на что-нибудь да сгодится.

В это самое мгновение из стены вышел детский скелетик, прошагал сквозь библиотечные полки точно сквозь дым и исчез. Скелетик прижимал к груди игрушечного мишку. Такие зрелища мозг обычно регистрирует пол рубрикой: "дайте мне это развидеть".

Он - хвастун и задира, он нападает только тогда, когда уверен в победе...

There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can’t, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having.

People aren’t just people, they are people surrounded by circumstances.

‘Knowledge is power, power is energy, energy is matter, matter is mass, and mass changes time and space.’

‘You know,’ said Tiffany, ‘maybe it’s wrong to base one’s future on a book of fairy stories.’

Should I blame him for what he’s been ordered to do? she wondered. After all, you can’t blame the hammer for what the carpenter does with it. But Brian has got a brain, and the hammer hasn’t. Maybe he should try to use it.

‘I was unfortunately born clever, miss, and I’ve learned that sometimes it’s not such a good idea to be all that clever. Saves trouble.’

She was a bully, the kind of bully who forces her victim into retaliation, which therefore becomes the justification for further and nastier bullying, with collateral damage to any innocent bystanders who would be invited by the bully to put the blame for their discomfiture onto the victim.

‘The past needs to be remembered. If you do not know where you come from, then you don’t know where you are, and if you don’t know where you are, then you don’t know where you’re going.’

'Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.’ And right now it would happen if you thought there was a thing called a father, and a thing called a mother, and a thing called a daughter, and a thing called a cottage, and told yourself that if you put them all together you had a thing called a happy family.

There are those who would rather be behind evil than in front of it.

Ye know full well that the meaning of life is to find your gift. To find your gift is happiness. Never tae find it is misery. Ye said she’s a bit simple: find her a teacher who can bring out the complicated in her.

That was the thing about thoughts. They thought themselves, and then dropped into your head in the hope that you would think so too.

Every man was king in his little castle. Everyone knew about that – well, at least every man – and so you minded your own business when it came to another man’s castle until the castle began to stink, and then you had to do something about it lest all castles should fall.