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Author: Tad Williams
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Tad Williams _ The Dragonbone Chair
Never make your home in a place," the old man had said, too lazy in the spring warmth to do more than wag a finger. "Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it-memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things." Morgenes had grinned. "That way it will go with you wherever you journey. You'll never lack for a home-unless you lose your head, of course . . .
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Tad Williams _ Empire of Grass
I hope not, but hope makes a flimsy armor,
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Tad Williams _ Sea of Silver Light
The Stone Girl looked down at the ground for a long moment, then up at Renie, squinting her pockmark eyes as though against a fierce sun. "Before I met you," she asked with a certain delicacy, "did you sort of . . . fall down? Maybe on your head?
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Tad Williams _ The Dragonbone Chair
Everyone was mad already, my lady," Cadrach said with a strange, sorrowful smile. "It is merely that the times have brought it out in them.
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Tad Williams _ The Dragonbone Chair
Bhojujik mo qunquc,' as my people say." Binabik made an expansive gesture around the clearing. "'-If the bears do not eat you, it is home.
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Tad Williams _ Shadowrise
The world is a ball of dung and we are the worms that live in it and eat each other.' He turned his back on her, pausing only to add: 'The one who eats all the others wins – but he is still the last living worm in a lump of shit.
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Tad Williams _ Stone of Farewell
strange days are upon us. Tradition served us, but now it shackles us.
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Tad Williams _ Sea of Silver Light
Still, it was better than being trampled by teddy bears.
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Tad Williams _ Sea of Silver Light
!Xabbu was taught by his people to absorb everything the world gives him and then, after sifting out the most important details, to act on them. But he is also clever and supremely flexible. Faced with a new world, he did not try to force it to comply with his expectations, but began all over to learn the rules, without prejudice as to where the information came from.
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Tad Williams _ Empire of Grass
If you spare a dog he will never bite you, but men are not so trustworthy.
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Tad Williams _ Sea of Silver Light
And Jinnears-engineers! Who works with machines? Engineers and . . . and techs. Jinnears and Ticks. Renie let out a hysterical giggle. But that means I'm a Jinnear, too-I have a degree and everything. Why didn't the Other make me a killer ghost-jellyfish as well?
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Tad Williams _ Sea of Silver Light
Yes, look," said Martine. "The Other has played his knight.
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