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Wigber
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"I came into aviation the hard way."

-Nevil Shute, Round The Bend

"Aft of the bridge of the destroyer Virtue, Ordinary Seaman Ludd wiped his nose on the back of a gloved hand."

-Ronald Bassett, The Tinfish Run

I hadn't remembered either of those lines even vaguely; had to look them up to write them here. What I had remembered was the immediate sense of context and scene-setting I'd experienced upon first reading of the first pages of those novels.

And one I do remember:

"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit."

Grabbers.
 
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Originally posted by Giabow:
"It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened."
~ The Giver by Lois Lowery


i loved this book.


"Are you a princess? I said & she said I'm much more than a princess, but you don't have a name for it yet here on earth."

-Brian Andreas


Limertilly: A pagan deity forgotten by man and therefore banished to the realms of memory and darkness now remembered by a young girl in downtown L.A. in the form of a dream and therefore freed to reap your revenge on the people who discarded you, thereby forcing said girl to learn to use her innate yet awesome powers as a soothsayer to gather forces of the Earth to defy you and once more banish you to your cold, cold prisoooooon
 
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