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“We wait, starving for moments of high magic to inspire us, but life is full of common enchantment waiting for our alchemists eyes to notice.”

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“Approaching the forest from the west was no army, but a delegation of Grailsundanian master surgeons on their way to an appendix conference . . . But that isn't the craziest part of the story - oh, no, my boy, for approaching from the east was a party of itinerant watchmakers bound for the pocket-watch fair at Wimbleton . . . But not even that is the craziest part of the story! For apporaching from the south were over a hundred armourers and locksmiths on their way to Florinth, where some power-hungry prince had commissioned them to build a monstrous war machine . . . Well, that would be enough crazy coincedences for an averagely crazy story but the battle of Nurn Forest involved the most improbable coincedences in the history of Zamonia. For entering the forest, this time from the north came a delegation of alchemists.”

Funny Surgeons Improbable Alchemists Armourers Coincedence Locksmiths Watchmakers

Book:Rumo & His Miraculous Adventures

Source: Rumo & His Miraculous Adventures

“(from the short story The Honorary Shepherds)...you can't be kicked out of a faith. Faith starts inside your heart and ends up in eternity. All you can be kicked out of is a building, which is the bus stop of faith, sort of, and what's a building?”

Book:Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence

Source: Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence

“Pantheon above save him, he might care for the woman more than he'd ever bargained for. The brash and unfashionable Wraith had lived up to her word from New Dortam. She had stolen his heart after all.”

Heart White Stolen Saga Pantheon Wraith Alchemists Loom Arianna Cvareh

Book:The Alchemists of Loom

Source: The Alchemists of Loom

“The old stars-and-moons act was a good way to farm the unduly trusting. But the need to raise money in the first place seemed to call into question one's own ability to turn lead into gold. ("Enoch in Boston, 1713")”

Wizards Alchemy Charlatans Alchemists

Book:Quicksilver

Source: Quicksilver

“I came up on the screen, too, Cassia. But he was the one you chose to see.”

Matched Xander Ally Condie

Book:Matched

Source: Matched

“So in the middle of all the noise, I point to the sky. I hope he understands what I mean, because I mean so many things: My heart will always fly his name. I won't go gentle. I'll find a way to soar life the angels in the stories and I will find him.”

Love Matched Ally Condie

Author:Ally Condie

“And I'll tell her that I don't want my life to be samples and scraps. A taste of everything but a meal of nothing.”

Life Matched Ally Condie

Author:Ally Condie

“But if you were Matched," I say softly, "what do you think she'd be life?" "You," he says, almost before I've finished. "You." We do not kiss. We do nothing bu hold on and breather, but still I know. I cannot go gently now.”

Love Matched Ally Condie

Author:Ally Condie

“Darkness entered into, darkness realized, is the point of departure for all profound expressions of Christian hope. 'Meaningless darkness' becomes 'revelatory darkness' when it is confronted by the courage of a thoughtfulness and hope that is born of faith's quest for truth.”

Truth Faith Sin Image Of God

Book:Imaging God: Dominion as Stewardship

Source: Imaging God: Dominion as Stewardship

“I'll go over again and again until I've finally crossed to where he is”

Young Adult Dystopian Dystopia Ally Condie Crossed Page 142

Book:Crossed

Source: Crossed