"I am always in a state of Eunoia. And I'm not in it just for the vowels."
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"I am always in a state of Eunoia. And I'm not in it just for the vowels."
"I looked at the piles of plates and cups, and kettles, and bottles and jars, and pies and stoves, and cakes, and tomatoes, &c., and felt that the thing would soon become exciting. It did. They started with breaking a cup. That was the first thing they did. They did that just to show you what they COULD do, and to get you interested."
"I mean, what does a devil want but to find meaning in life after a long journey of turmoil and troubles?"
"It's like smoking compost through a raccoon."
"Don't let the devil hear you, minister, The devil has such good hearing he doesn't need things to be spoken out loud, Well, god help us then, There's no point asking him for help either, he was born stone-deaf."
"She is an agent of the Devil, possibly escorted out of Hell for behavior which would make a demon go "Ooooo, that's nasty!"
"Horst passed him a bottle he had picked up in his rapid trip from there to here. Remarkably, it's contents had survived the transit. "Drink this," he said, unmoved by Cabal's anger. "You need to save your voice for your next session." Cabal took the bottle testily and swigged from it. there was a moments pause, just long enough for Cabal's expression to change from testy to horrified revulsion. He spat the liquid violently onto the grass like a man who has got absent-minded with the concentrated nitric acid and a mouth pipette. He glared at Horst as he took off his spectacles and wiped his suddenly weeping eyes "Disinfectant? You give me disinfectant to drink" Horst's surprise was replaced with mild amusement. "It's root beer, Johannes. Have you never had root beer" Cabal looked suspiciously at him, then at the bottle "People drink this" "Yes." "For non-medical reasons" "That's right." Cabal shook his head in open disbelief. "They must be insane."
"Not entirely fair" His voice became that of the inferno: a rushing, booming howl of icy evil that flew around the great cavern, as swift and cold as the Wendigo on skates. "I am Satan, also called Lucifer the Light Bearer..."Cabal winced. What was it about devils that they always had to give you their whole family history"I was cast down from the presence of God himself into this dark, sulfurous pit and condemned to spend eternity here-"Have you tried saying sorry" interrupted Cabal."No, I haven't! I was sent down for a sin of pride. It rather undermines my position if I say 'sorry'!"
"Here you have learned the theories of life," continued the Headmaster, resuming the thread of his discourse, "but after all, life is not a matter of theories. Life is a matter of facts. It calls on the young and the old alike to face these facts, even though they are hard and sometimes unpleasant. Your problem, for example, is to slay dragons."
"Let's see," mused the dragon, "that doesn't tell us much, does it? What sort of a word is this? Is it an epithet, do you think"Gawaine could do no more than nod."Why, of course," exclaimed the dragon, "reactionary Republican."
"What happened out there?”“I almost got quarking toasted by a dragon.”“A dragon,” he repeats, scandalized. “Are you mad? Or have you been skulking around the bars of Barbary XIII?"
"With the suggestion of a compromise Gawaine mustered up enough courage to speak."What will you do if I surrender" he asked."Why, I'll eat you," said the dragon."And if I don't surrender"I'll eat you just the same."
"Among the dragons, the prohibition against asking direct questions did not exist, and-as Harrier discovered immediately-dragons were even more outrageous gossips than sailors."
"What goes up must come down, unless a dragon eats it."
"Now then," he mused, "how does one fly a dragon?"
"Dragons are among the most ancient spirits. Their origins are not known, but they significantly predate the rise of man. [This author advises the reader never to ask a dragon about the early days of humanity, as they tend to remark that we were much more entertaining as a species before we climbed down from the trees.]"
"The table was covered with food like roast chicken, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, roast turkey, roast liquorice and, the centrepiece, a roasted knight."
"I'm sorry, but dragons don't come in pink."
"Dragons didn’t fool around when it came to protecting things that they acquired—be it gold, gems, or a monster’s body parts."
"You want us to bargain with a lizard?”“They’re not lizards, Father. They’re extraordinary creatures who werehere long before any human was crawling on this earth. They are warriorsand scholars and—”“He has long hair like a woman,” one of Sigmar’s sons blathered"
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