And not only of even mainly because of the protection it had given him - it was thanks to his own strength, after all, that he had stood up to all the hardships and terrors and the loneliness of his Quest - but as long as he had carried the emblem, he had never been at a loss for what to do. Like a mysterious compass, it had guided his thoughts in the right direction. And now that was changed, now he had no secret power to lead him. He had no idea what to do, but he couldn't bear to stand there as though paralyzed.
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Related He knew now, and the knowledge was hard, that his task had never been to undo what he had done, but ... URSULA K. LE GUIN And Harry remembered his first nightmarish trip into the forest, the first time he had ever encounte... J.K. ROWLING And Harry saw very clearly as he sat there under the hot sun how people who cared about him had stoo... J.K. ROWLING To his surprise he felt a moment of regret, of sadness that his quest for his mother and father woul... J.G. BALLARD He had no longer any need for home, for he carried his Gormenghast within him. All that he sought wa... MERVYN PEAKE Presently comfort came to him, and he thought the she had always given him of her strength though he... ANYA SETON He was about to go home, about to return to the place where he had had a family. It was in Godric’... J.K. ROWLING She was a creature of the deep, and there she must return, or perish. Toby understood that, but it h... JULIET MARILLIER It had belonged to that idea of the exasperated consciousness of his victim to become a real test fo... HENRY JAMES The sword was called Kaledvoulc'h, which means hard lightning, though Igraine prefers to call it Exc... BERNARD CORNWELL He felt light, lighter than ever in all his years. He had severed all relationships. It occurred to ... JOSEPH ROTH Things aren't like this," he kept repeating. "It shouldn't be this way." As if he had access to some... SALMAN RUSHDIE Lazarus had never thought of himself as lovable. Therefore it should come as no shock at all that Te... ELIZABETH HOYT You may fancy the Lord had His own power to fall back upon. But that would have been to Him just the... GEORGE MACDONALD ...Goddamn himself for letting his independence slip away from him. He didn't even know how it had h... KIMBERLY GARDNER They were talking more distantly than if they were strangers who had just met, for if they had been ... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM There is no record of what he did at the meeting. He met with the chief negotiators for the enemy. H... JOHN O'NEIL He tried to remember Moon Child's eyes, but was no longer able to. He was sure of only one thing: th... MICHAEL ENDE The Boasting Traveler
A man who had traveled in foreign lands boasted very much, on returning to his... AESOP He ran as he'd never run before, with neither hope nor despair. He ran because the world was divided... KARL MARLANTES If someone had asked him, “Ben, are you lonely? , ” he would have looked at that someone with re... STEPHEN KING And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on: yet he promised that ... BIBLE All that he had of her was his memory, where he held every moment, every single moment that she had ... JULIET MARILLIER Like all men with a faculty that surpasses human requirements, his father was very nervous. Then, to... ERNEST HEMINGWAY And in an essential way, this was what he was most ashamed of: not his poor understanding of sex, no... HANYA YANAGIHARA They had stopped now and he gave a glance up at the sky, through the trees, as though to see how muc... KATHLEEN WINSOR It had been a long time since a woman had aroused his interest as Amelia Hathaway had. The moment he... LISA KLEYPAS Ferranti's thoughts had been his. As before he had understood his remorse so now he understood the m... ELIZABETH GOUDGE Horace’s pulse was racing and adrenaline was surging into his system. But he showed no sign of it.... JOHN FLANAGAN The tree was so old, and stood there so alone, that his childish heart had been filled with compassi... KARL OVE KNAUSGåRD Keith had it a little better than most kids here because he had two parents in the same household wh... JEFF HILL As a teenager in Brooklyn Quentin had often imagined himself engaged in martial heroics, but after t... LEV GROSSMAN He had no memory of ever being hugged like this, as though by a mother. The full weight of everythin... J.K. ROWLING This was a young man who had a very rough time growing up, but he never showed that, never complaine... EDWARD ROMERO Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as... HARRIET ANN JACOBS He had the strength and the desire and the passion and all that sort of thing within his game. He al... JOHN ADSHEAD He had loved the library, and had felt, as a boy, as though it had a kind of sentience, and perhaps ... LAINI TAYLOR He remembered Tessa weeping in his arms in Paris, and thinking that he had never known the loss she ... CASSANDRA CLARE He can hum the music in his old man's quivering voice, but he prefers it in his head, where it lives... EVAN FALLENBERG I watched the black ocean in his eyes and saw this flash behind them and understood what he had mean... T.J. KLUNE He struggled to get ahold of himself. This had to stop! He couldn't flip out every time he thought a... SUZANNE COLLINS But now, he was conscious of his own impatience with what he had begun to see as the sinister pedant... HANYA YANAGIHARA It came to him that he had turned away from the buffalo not because of a womanish nausea at blood an... JOHN WILLIAMS Adam finally sat down on one of the pews. Laying his cheek against the smooth back of it, he looked ... MAGGIE STIEFVATER He never thought he was right. The horror of all that had died under his will had become mundane to ... THOMM QUACKENBUSH Whenever one speaks of lonely people one takes too much for granted. One thinks people all know what... RAINER MARIA RILKE Because Adam practised at many things, Adam was good at many things, but this – what was it even c... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Intrusive, thoughtless people!" said K. as he turned back into the room. The supervisor may have agr... FRANZ KAFKA Whether or not, he felt very much at home in this state. It was to places like this that they had se... DOUGLAS WOOLF He had learned some of the things that every man must find out for himself, and he had found out abo... THOMAS WOLFE But he said to his wife, sitting next to him on the couch in the TV room, that rarely had he seen a ... MARK WALLACE We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright ... NEIL GAIMAN I had watched Magic my whole career, even before my career, and so I knew the style of player that h... SCOTTIE PIPPEN Nicholas looked down at his battered shoes and said nothing. He did indeed wish to be contrary—at ... TRENTON LEE STEWART But some part of him realized, even as he fought to break free from Lupin, that Sirius had never kep... J.K. ROWLING He knew all he had to do was beat the guy in front of him. He went out there and wrestled his match. AARON SARRA She understood that it had never just been about talent: it had also always been about money. Ethan ... MEG WOLITZER …in that moment, as he saw and smelled how irresistible its effect was and how with lightning spee... PATRICK SüSKIND Perhaps in his loneliness he had acquired the silent conviction that he was 'the last', the one, the... WALTER M. MILLER JR. What?” Ron bellowed furiously. “Four? You lousy, biased scumbag, you gave Krum ten!” But Harry... J.K. ROWLING He had no faintest conception till that very hour of how they would look, and even doubted their exi... C.S. LEWIS The first inkling of this notion had come to him the Christmas before, at his daughter's place in Ve... JOHN CROWLEY Now very much against her will, she thought of the way Jace had looked at her then, the blaze of fai... CASSANDRA CLARE The marquis de Carabas was not a good man, and he knew himself well enough to be perfectly certain t... NEIL GAIMAN The telephone was not his favorite object, and more than once he had considered getting rid of his. ... PAUL AUSTER It wasn't as though he didn't have choices. He could have expanded his career, maybe further it with... BOB FULLER Feast of the Conversion of Paul The God of Pharisaism was like the God of the Deists, He stood al... C. H. DODD Blackthorne, beside the gates, was still turmoiled by his boundless joy at her reprieve and he remem... JAMES CLAVELL Then, as tonight, he had felt lonely, but soon had learnt the bounty of such loneliness. The music h... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY They were living to themselves: self, with its hopes, and promises, and dreams, still had hold of th... ELIZABETH PAYSON PRENTISS And there stood Basta with his foot already on another dead body, smiling. Why not? He had hit his t... CORNELIA FUNKE A child blind from birth doesn't even know he's blind until someone tells him. Even then he has only... STEPHEN KING Frodo drew the Ring out of his pocket again and looked at it. It now appeared plain and smooth, with... J.R.R. TOLKIEN To the rich man, Lazarus was part of the landscape. If ever he did notice him, it never struck him t... WILLIAM BARCLAY He has had a rough year, no question about it. But he knows that he's in the rotation now, and he fe... EDDIE JORDAN Before he had come to the town he had known about nothing but death: here he had learnt to live, to ... ANNE HOLM She'd always known he didn't love her. But it was easier to bear when he didn't know she loved him. ... SARAH ADDISON ALLEN The want for that kiss had shocked him more than the interruption, and he fell back into the chair, ... KIM HARRISON No, it had never been like this for him before, with anyone. Of all the women he’d known, she was ... J.D. ROBB It was a comet. The boy saw the comet and he felt as though his life had meaning. And when it went a... LUCAS SCOTT He had never been to a party like this and it struck him as a little bizarre, like a feverish nightm... AUSTIN GROSSMAN The men who had hated [the book], and had not particularly loved Helvétius, flocked round him now. ... S. G. TALLENTYRE He [Cato] used to say that in all his life he never repented but
of three things. The first was th... PLUTARCH His habit of reading isolated him: it became such a need that after being in company for some time h... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Having arrived at this point, he had found no direction in which to go save that of further withdraw... PAUL BOWLES Have you ever noticed that Jesus is never recorded as taking a holiday? He retired for the purposes ... EVELYN UNDERHILL No sooner had he thought this than he realized what was anchoring his happiness. It was purpose. He ... TRENTON LEE STEWART We stopped to browse in the cases, and now that William - with his new glasses on his nose - could l... UMBERTO ECO He was scarcely then a year old, and knew so little of herding that he had never turned a sheep in h... JAMES HOGG The others cast themselves down upon the fragrant grass, but Frodo stood awhile still lost in wonder... J.R.R. TOLKIEN He was beaten (he knew that); but he was not broken. He saw, once for all, that he stood no chance a... JACK LONDON All things are God's already; we can give him no right, by consecrating any, that he had not before,... JOHN SELDEN The great fact all the while however had been the incalculability; since he had supposed himself, fr... HENRY JAMES It was Leslie who had taken him from the cow pasture into Terabithia and turned him into a king. He ... KATHERINE PATERSON Thus he spent his whole life searching for his own truth, but it remained hidden to him because he h... ALICE MILLER What could the thing that was to happen to him be, after all, but just this thing that had begun to ... HENRY JAMES He was distracted by a brief surge of adrenaline as he remembered the girl’s blood-soaked body. Fl... DAVID MCCAFFREY Yes, he had made a good choice after all when he had chosen the God of the green pasture and the sti... ANNE HOLM A little later, when breakfast was over and I had not yet gone up-stairs to my room, I had my first ... ELLEN GLASGOW When the peasants and their song had vanished from his sight and hearing, a heavy feeling of anguish... LEO TOLSTOY
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MICHAEL MOORE As a kid, I watched 'Bugs Bunny' cartoons, and for some reason Pepe Le Pew, the indomitable ... MICHAEL PATERNITI I made a very conscious effort to finish 'The Cypress House' before 'So Cold the River... MICHAEL KORYTA The United States contributes to peace in both by serving as a buffer between and among regional pow... MICHAEL MANDELBAUM I used a kind of gray-green early on in my practice for painting steel, to make it look more like it... MICHAEL GRAVES With 'Black Rain,' I spent a lot of time with homicide detectives, and I spent a lot of time... MICHAEL DOUGLAS Never eat broccoli when there are cameras around. MICHAEL STIPE I've always loved going to see Broadway shows. I've seen 'em all: Rent, Chorus Line, Cat... MICHAEL SHOWALTER To this day, I believe the unity of the world's countries in the fight against terror is more powerf... MICHAEL DELONG Talking about Apple v. Microsoft without mentioning the Internet and the browser is like talking abo... MICHAEL ARRINGTON You can't be elected president without passing though Iowa and bowing down before corn-based eth... MICHAEL POLLAN A boundary is really something artificial we made up. The ecosystem and landscape continue. MICHAEL FROME I'm a career Air Force officer. We have a saying in the Air Force: 'If you want people to be... MICHAEL HAYDEN For a brief moment, Ian Fleming made being an Englishman seem sexy, even to the French. He should ha... MICHAEL KORDA In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the trut... MICHAEL MUSTO Life does not happen to us, it happens from us. MICHAEL WICKETT I moved from Moscow to Rome with my family and two bicycles in 1998, and spent a lot of that year- a... MICHAEL SPECTER You get to about 65 or 70 and you lose friends and the world does seem to be an endlessly difficult ... MICHAEL MORPURGO I have not much love for the bright lights - unless it's the sun creeping up over the horizon. MICHAEL LEUNIG The French consider themselves the guardians of the world's culture and do not bother to hide th... MICHAEL KORDA Something ancient in us bends us toward the origins of the whole thing. We either drown in the split... MICHAEL MEADE Through an arbitrary problem, I had arrived at a tenet of good writing: brevity wins. MICHAEL WINTER The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while q... MICHAEL KORDA We all fly. Once you leave the ground, you fly. Some people fly longer than others. MICHAEL JORDAN The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and pea... MICHAEL JORDAN When I was young, I had to learn the fundamentals of basketball. You can have all the physical abili... MICHAEL JORDAN You have to build up to green smoothies. Everyone loves fruit smoothies: you can add a handful of ba... MICHAEL GREGER As you eat more healthily, your palate changes - it's amazing. Your taste buds constantly adapt:... MICHAEL GREGER In my experience, people are usually fired for reasons having to do with budgetary constraints, inco... MICHAEL SHERMER