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“Svengal lay groaning on the turf. His thighs were sheer agony. His buttocks ached. His calf muscles were on fire. Now, afterhe had tumbled off the small pony he was riding and thudded heavily to the turf on the point of his shoulder, the shoulder would hurt too. He concentrated on trying to find one part of his body that wasn't a giant source of pain and failed miserably. He opened his eyes. The first thing he saw was the face of the elderly pony that he had been riding peered down at him. Now what made you do a strange thing like that? The creature seemed to be asking.”

Source: Erak's Ransom (Ranger's Apprentice Book 7)

“As far as I can recall, the initial shiver of inspiration [for Lolita] was somehow prompted by a newspaper story about an ape in the Jardin des Plantes, who, after months of coaxing by a scientist, produced the first drawing ever charcoaled by an animal: this sketch showed the bars of the poor creature's cage.”

Firsts I Can Stories Inspiration Animal Poor Months Creatures Scientist Drawing Newspapers Bars Recalls Cages Initials Apes Shiver

Book:Lolita

Source: Lolita

“Swathed in silk, I feel like a caterpillar in a cocoon awaiting metamorphosis. I always supposed that to be a peaceful condition. At first it is. But as I journey into the night, I feel more and more trapped, suffocated by the slippery bindings, unable to emerge until I have transformed into something of beauty. I squirm, trying to shed my ruined body and unlock the secret to growing flawless wings. Despite enormous effort, I remain a hideous creature, fired into my current form by the blast from the bombs.”

“Men-kind shared this world for but a blink, then, sadly, they became enlightened, found science and religion. The new world of men left little room for magic or the magical creatures of old. Earth’s first children were driven into the shadows by flame and cold iron, by man’s insatiable need of conquest.”

“Coal, oil and gas are called fossil fuels, because they are mostly made of the fossil remains of beings from long ago. The chemical energy within them is a kind of stored sunlight originally accumulated by ancient plants. Our civilization runs by burning the remains of humble creatures who inhabited the Earth hundreds of millions of years before the first humans came on the scene. Like some ghastly cannibal cult, we subsist on the dead bodies of our ancestors and distant relatives. - Dr. Carl Sagan”

Source: Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium

“The highest glory of the creature is in being only a vessel, to receive and enjoy and show forth the glory of God. It can do this only as it is willing to be nothing in itself, that God may be all. Water always fills first the lowest places. The lower, the emptier a man lies before God, the speedier and the fuller will be the inflow of the diving glory.”

Men Firsts May Shows Lying Enjoy Water Can Do Willing Creatures Highest Glory Lowest Vessel Glory Of God Diving Lying Men

Book:Humility and Absolute Surrender

Source: Humility and Absolute Surrender

“A faint light burned in the pit revealing a furry creature hunched over a stone slab, fiddling with something. At first Gregor raised a warning hand. He thought it was a rat. Then the creature lifted his head and Gregor recognized what was left of his dad.”

Firsts Hands Light Left Dad Creatures Stones Raised Warning Burned Rats Revealing Pits Furry Slabs

Book:Gregor the Overlander Collection:

Source: Gregor the Overlander Collection:

“Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is the first duty and the highest virtue of the creature, and the root of every virtue. And so pride, or the loss of this humility, is the root of every sin and evil.”

Firsts Evil Loss Sin Virtue Humility Duty Pride Creatures Highest Roots Dependence Dependence On God

Book:Humility

Source: Humility

“It's a lot to ask of one creature, it's a lot to ask, that he should first behave as if he were not, then as if he were, before being admitted to that peace where he neither is, nor is not, and where the language dies that permits of such expressions.”

Ifs Should Firsts Dies Asks Language Expression Creatures Behave Permit

Book:The Unnamable

Source: The Unnamable

“Living out here, I have found that many creatures would prefer not to fight. But if your first instinct is to reach for your sword, you will never discover that.”

Ifs Firsts Fighting Found Creatures Instinct

Book:Gregor the Overlander Collection:

Source: Gregor the Overlander Collection:

“First think of the person who lives in disguise, Who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies. Next, tell me what's always the last thing to mend, The middle of middle and the end of end? And finally give me the sound often heard During the search for a hard-to-find word. Now string them together, and answer me this, Which creature would you be unwilling to kiss?”

Thinking Giving Firsts Persons Ends Hard Together Lasts Lying Next Sound Answers Deals Secret Heard Middle Creatures Kissing Give Me Strings Disguise Unwilling

Author:J. K. Rowling