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Shadowrise - Google eBookstore - 0 views

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    With King Olin imprisoned and Prince Kendrick slain, the royal twins Barrick and Briony have been forced to flee their homeland. But both families and nations can hide dark and terrible secrets, and even if Barrick and Briony survive learning the astonishing truths at the heart of their own family and of Southmarch itself, they must still find a way to reclaim their kingdom and rescue their home- from traitors, tyrants, a god-king, and even the angry gods themselves.
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Faramir - Wikiquote - 0 views

  • "I do not slay man or beast needlessly, and not gladly even when it is needed."
  • "I would not take this thing, if it lay by the highway. Not were Minas Tirith falling in ruin and I alone could save her, so, using the weapon of the Dark Lord for her good and my glory. No, I do not wish for such triumphs, Frodo son of Drogo."
  • "He is bold, more bold than many deem; for in these days men are slow to believe a captain can be wise and learned in the scrolls of lore and song, as he is, and yet a man of hardihood and swift judgement in the field. But such is Faramir. Less reckless and eager than Boromir, but not less resolute." —Beregond
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  • The praise of the praiseworthy is above all rewards.
  • 'When he saw the pale face of Faramir he caught his breath. It was the face of one who had been assailed by a great fear or anguish, but has mastered it and now is quiet. Proud and grave he stood for a moment...and Pippin gazing at him saw how closely he resembled his brother Boromir—whom Pippin had liked from the first, admiring the great man's lordly but kindly manner. Yet suddenly for Faramir his heart was strangely moved with a feeling that he had not known before. Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet also less incalculable and remote: one of the Kings of Men born into a later time, but touched with the wisdom and sadness of the Elder Race. He knew now why Beregond spoke his name with love. He was a captain that men would follow, that he would follow, even under the shadow of the black wings.' —Pippin
  • "Ever your desire is to appear lordly and generous as a king of old, gracious, gentle. That may well befit one of a high race, if he sits in power and peace. But in desperate hours gentleness may be repaid with death." "So be it," said Faramir.
  • 'She looked at him and saw the grave tenderness in his eyes, and yet knew, for she was bred among men of war, that here was one whom no Rider of the Mark would outmatch in battle... this tall man, both stern and gentle...' —Éowyn
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List of spells - Harry Potter Wiki - 0 views

  • Accio (Summoning Charm)
  • Accio (Summoning Charm)
  • summons an object to the caster
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  • the caster must concentrate upon the object they wish to summon
  • caster doesn't necessarily need to know the location if they say the name of the object to be summoned
  • also used as a quicker way to find objects
  • a quick and effective way of fishing
  • summoning charm is limited only to items and small animals, as it has been shown incapable to summon people
  • it is still possible for items to be enchanted so as to be impossible to summon
  • Age Line
  • Aguamenti (Aguamenti Charm)
  • Aguamenti
  • Alohomora
  • not effective on doors bewitched to resist this spell
  • open and unlock doors
  • Anapneo
  • Clears the target's airway if it is blocked
  • Aresto Momentum
  • Used to slow down an object or being that is moving
  • Ascendio
  • Lifts the caster high into the air.
  • Cave Inimicum
  • Warns of any approaching enemies
  • Cheering Charm
  • Causes the person upon whom the spell was cast to become happy and contented
  • Colloportus
  • will magically lock a door, preventing it from being opened by Muggle means
  • Colovaria
  • used to change one's hair colour and style
  • Depulso (Banishing Charm)
  • This spell is said to turn its target to stone
  • Episkey
  • Used to heal relatively minor injuries
  • Evanesco (Vanishing Spell)
  • Expecto Patronum (Patronus Charm)
  • Expelliarmus (Disarming Charm)
  • Featherweight Charm
  • Fidelius Charm
  • enables secret information to be hidden within the soul of the recipient, known as a Secret-Keeper
  • not even those who have the Secret revealed to them can reveal it to others
  • Those who have been informed of the secret by the Secret-Keeper are unable to tell the secret to those who are unaware of it
  • Finite (Incantatem)
  • Negates spells or the effects of spells
  • Firestorm
  • conjures a ring of fire
  • The caster is able to control the movement and direction of the flames with enough precision to strike specific targets
  • Partis Temporus can create a gap in the flames to allow safe passage through
  • Flame-Freezing Charm
  • creating only a gentle, tickling sensation instead of burns
  • Causes fire to become harmless
  • Geminio
  • Creates a duplicate of any object cast upon
  • Gripping Charm
  • Harmonia Nectere Passus
  • Causes the object/person in a vanishing cabinet to pass in its twin/other vanishing cabinet.
  • Herbivicus
  • Makes flowers and plants bloom in an instant
  • Homenum Revelio
  • Reveals human presence in the vicinity of the caster
  • Homorphus Charm
  • Causes an Animagus or transfigured object to assume its normal shape
  • Immobulus (Freezing Charm)
  • Renders target immobile
  • Imperio (Imperius Curse)
  • Places the subject in a dream-like state, in which he or she is utterly subject to the will of the caster
  • those who are strong willed may learn to resist it
  • Imperturbable Charm
  • Makes objects such as doors impenetrable (by everything, including sounds and objects).
  • Impervius (Impervius Charm)
  • This spell makes something repel (literally, become impervious to) substances and outside forces including water.
  • Incarcerous
  • Ties someone or something up with ropes
  • Incendio
  • Produces fire
  • Legilimens (Legilimency Spell)
  • Allows the caster to delve into the mind of the victim, allowing the caster to see the memories, thoughts, and emotions of the victim.
  • Liberacorpus
  • Locomotor (name of object)
  • auses the named object to rise in the air and move around at the will of the caster
  • Lumos
  • Creates a narrow beam of light that shines from the wand's tip, like a torch.
  • Muffliato
  • fills peoples' ears with an unidentifiable buzzing to keep them from hearing nearby conversations.
  • Obliviate (Memory Charm)
  • Obscuro
  • Causes a blindfold to appear over the victim's eyes, obstructing their view of their surroundings.
  • Orchideous
  • Makes a bouquet of flowers appear out of the caster's wand
  • Reparifors
  • Partis Temporus
  • Creates a temporary gap through protective magical barriers
  • Periculum
  • Creates red sparks/flares to shoot from the users wand
  • Permanent Sticking Charm
  • Placement Charm
  • Point Me (Four-Point Spell)
  • Portus
  • Turns an object into a port-key
  • Protean Charm
  • Causes copies of an object to be remotely affected by changes made to the original.
  • Protego (Shield Charm)
  • The Shield Charm causes minor to moderate jinxes, curses, and hexes to rebound upon the attacker.
  • Protego Horribilis
  • A powerful shield charm against dark magic.
  • Protego Maxima
  • A powerful shield charm against dark magic. Was so powerful that it did also disintegrate people that came too close.
  • Protego Totalum
  • Casts a shield charm over a small area that will not let anything pass through. Except for the Unforgivable Curses: Avada Kedavra, Imperio and Crucio .
  • Quietus
  • Makes a magically magnified voice return to normal.
  • Sonorus
  • Refilling Charm
  • Refills whatever the caster points at
  • Daydream Charm
  • Reverts minor magically-induced ailments, such as paralysis and poisoning.
  • Relashio
  • A spell used to make the subject release what ever it is holding or binding.
  • Rennervate
  • revives a stunned person
  • Reparo
  • Used to repair objects.
  • Rictusempra (Tickling Charm)
  • Scourgify (Scouring Charm)
  • Silencio (Silencing Charm)
  • Sonorous Charm
  • Sonorus
  • Magnifies the spell caster's voice when one's wand is pointing to the side of the caster's neck.
  • Spongify (Cushioning Charm)
  • Stealth Sensoring Spell
  • Detects those under magical disguise
  • Stupefy (Stunning Spell)
  • Supersensory Charm
  • causes the caster to have enhanced senses, or to be able to sense things they would not normally sense.
  • Switching Spell
  • Causes two objects to be switched for one another
  • Tergeo
  • A spell used to siphon matter from a surface, eg. blood, ink, dust, etc.
  • Unbreakable Vow
  • Causes a vow taken by a witch or wizard to be inviolable; if they should break it, the consequence is death.
  • Unbreakable Charm
  • Makes something unbreakable.
  • Undetectable Extension Charm
  • Causes a container's capacity to be increased, without changing the object's appearance on the outside.
  • Verdimillious
  • A spell that shoots green sparks at the end of the wand.
Sunny Jackson

Book Quotes: What are the best quotes from books? - Quora - 0 views

  • "A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future."Robert Heinlein - Time Enough for Love
  • "The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."Philip K. Dick - I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
  • So we dream on.  Thus we invent our lives. 
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  • We invent what we love and what we fear. 
  • We dream on and on
  • And our dreams escape us almost as vividly as we can imagine them… 
  • You have to keep passing the open windows
  • Show me a hero and I'll write a tragedy.
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Frank Herbert - Wikiquote - 0 views

  • I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
  • When a wise man does not understand, he says: "I do not understand." The fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their ignorance. They remain silent when a question could bring them wisdom.
  • Don't give over all of your critical faculties to people in power, no matter how admirable those people may appear to be. Beneath the hero's facade you will find a human being who makes human mistakes. Enormous problems arise when human mistakes are made on the grand scale available to a superhero. And sometimes you run into another problem.
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  • The verb to be does make idiots of us all.
  • You are trying to hold back movement in an infinitely changing universe.
  • I now believe that evolution, or deevolution, never ends short of death, that no society has ever achieved an absolute pinnacle, that all humans are not created equal. In fact, I believe attempts to create some abstract equalization create a morass of injustices that rebound on the equalizers. Equal justice and equal opportunity are ideals we should seek, but we should recognize that humans administer the ideals and that humans do not have equal ability.
  • Learning a language represents training in the delusions of that language.
  • That is one of the Law's purposes, of course: to test the qualities of those who choose to employ it.
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Clarke's three laws - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
  • The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
  • Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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  • Witchcraft to the ignorant, .... Simple science to the learned
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Nowi/Supports - The Fire Emblem Wiki - Shadow Dragon, Radiant Dawn, Path of Radiance, a... - 0 views

  • Ricken
  • Libra
  • Henry
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  • Fear of the unknown is the fear most dangerous.
  • ...And yet, why do I not feel that fear around her? I must learn why!
  • Put that dragonstone away, you little extortionist.
  • I will play one more time. ...But only because I happen to feel like it!
  • It is not entirely unpleasant, after all. With you I do not feel that icy grip of fear...
  • Oh, how sad! I don't know! I don't know anything about families!
  • Nowi: Yay! I bet no one's better at sneaking around people's houses than you! Lon'qu: ...What is that supposed to mean?
  • Lon'qu: This is a game no longer, Nowi. I want us to be a real family. And so I must offer you a real ring.
  • Lon'qu: No, silly. I want to be your husband. Nowi: Gosh! You mean we wouldn't have to pretend anymore? We could have our own real-life family? Oh, Lon'qu—tell me I'm not dreaming!
  • Lon'qu: Like you, I have been alone for a very long time. I find this new life agreeable, and I wouldn't want to share it with anyone but you.
  • When allies fight together, bonds grow strong and become more powerful, yes? So Gregor thinks we should train together, becoming unbeatable force!
  • S Support
  • Nowi: *Sigh* I wish I had some manakete friends. That would be more fun. Henry: Well, I can't promise anything, but I might be able to conjure one up for you. Nowi: You could? Henry: Sure! I'll need to make some preparations first, though. Might take some time.
  • Nowi: I want a real friend! Someone I can laugh with and talk with and cry with!
  • Henry: Hey, Nowi. I've finally conjured up a plan that'll solve your problem. Nowi: You mean about finding me a manakete friend? Henry: Yep. And unlike the hologram, this will be a real live, talking, laughing dragon. The only catch is it's going to take time. ...Lots and lots of time.
  • So my plan is, we'll get married and have a bunch of children. They're going to be part manakete, what with you being the mum and all. And then once they grow up, BAM! Manakete playmates for life! Nowi: Gosh, Henry! That's ingenious! Why didn't I think of that? Hee hee! So I suppose this means we're going to be husband and wife? Henry: Sure does! A lifetime of fun and games, coming right up!
Sunny Jackson

Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction and Fantasy : Another Word: Reading and Writing... - 0 views

  • We learn about some of the most important things in our lives vicariously through fiction.
  • I’ve known a lot of people for whom books have been profoundly important
  • Fiction isn’t powerless. And if the author just ignores the politics of their work, that doesn’t mean the book becomes apolitical. It just means they wrote their own defaults.
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  • Think Black people are lazy and violent, but your work isn’t about that? I’ll bet you dollars to donuts it’s in there.
  • Reading is the same way.
  • He’s trying to be a better man and to create (in a small way) a better world by the way he chooses what he reads.
  • And it was a moral statement, even if it was mostly a private one.
  • How we read and how we write will always have moral and political implications. The only choice we’ve got is whether they’re unconscious or considered.
  • beautiful and damning distinction
  • best self
  • authentic self
  • Wanting to live in a better world is great. Working for a better world is great. It only becomes a vice when it keeps us from loving the world we’re in—warts and all. My experience is that life is full of strong women and weak ones. Venal ones. Active ones. Passive ones. Complicated ones. Unhealthy ones. Men are just as varied and complicated and screwed-up. Their lives aren’t our societal best self, but they’re who we are
  • Treating moral issues as if they were craft is asking for a literature of beautiful sermons.
  • reading projects that pull you out into different kinds of authors and stories are wonderful so long as the moral aspects of your reading list don’t become more important than the joy you take in reading
  • I would never argue that the power of story—and it’s a real power—comes without responsibility. But I would say that responsibility is both to the better world to which we aspire and also the broken, compromised one we live in now.
Sunny Jackson

Short Stories: What is the most intriguing story you can come up with in just five word... - 0 views

  • Quietly, she turned herself off.
  • "Welcome back," the coroner said.
  • We caught them stealing dreams.
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  • Alone, she read her obituary.
  • She destroyed her own shadow.
  • I wasn't human before yesterday.
  • The future returned - empty handed.
  • Breathe and I'll find you.
  • The unopened letter held salvation.
  • Two entered, fearful. One returned.
  • "You're insane." said the lamp.
  • She only killed dead people
  • Her preferred weapon was guilt
  • She saw redemption in creation
  • She died that night. Free.
  • God struggled to keep up.
  • Found guilty of killing dreams.
  • Quietly, she turned herself off.
  • Mars is overbooked, Sir. Jupiter?
  • The plaque read "Planet Earth"
  • He remembered dying yesterday. 
  • She reentered her dead body.
  • I felt strange being reborn.
  • We exited the black hole.
  • The Robot said "You're free!"
  • They hopped between people's dreams.
  • He only remembered his future.
  • Thus the last government fell.
  • Suddenly, a universe was born.
  • Turning to look, they vanished.
  • Eyes closed. She saw everything.
  • That sinking feeling? Quicksand.
  • "I should not be alive".
  • He died an immortal's death.
  • My brain lies to me.
  • The sun gave up today.
  • And then, she started breathing.
  • Still awake, she began dreaming.
  • The Earth turned inside out.
  • I woke within my dream.
  • "Try 'Human', it's kinda intriguing..."
  • And there she was, smiling.
  • She died but awoke millions
  • Remember, never burp in hyperspace.
  • No longer human, she cried.
  • Suddenly, he knew too much.
  • That's how long forever is.
  • An explosion began his journey.
  • He tripped and fell, forever.
  • She watched herself die again.
  • Amidst the pieces, lay peace.
  • I know who killed me.
  • Death. The last book read.
  • He was born without parents.
  • Coma. Awaken to explore everything.
  • He dove into the Sun.
  • She built him from starlight.
  • I had safely reached death.
  • Networked souls flitted between bodies.
  • I loved making that mistake.
  • "What do you mean, forever?"
  • Just like that, fear won.
  • Her makeup was a mask.
  • She thought, then finally jumped.
  • "Anyone alive?", the droid squeaked
  • Eventually we remembered to breathe
  • He created God by mistake.
  • Escape my mind or vanish.
  • I smiled at my corpse.
  • A locked box washed ashore.
  • My face no longer exists.
  • No longer human, we survive
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