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At last he understood that he was a prisoner within the palace as much as he was within his own body, that it was not his power which mastered anything, that he would no more rule the world than the glove on a king’s hand actually holds the scepter.

— Darrell Schweitzer The Shattered Goddess (1983)

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Nothing frightens a miser more than the prospect of not getting paid.

We Are All Legends (1981)

I listened to all this with the dull incomprehension of a pig in the slaughterhouse overhearing the talk of two butchers.

We Are All Legends (1981)

“What can I do without you?”
“Whatever is within you.”

The Shattered Goddess (1983)

The true horror story requires a sense of evil, not in necessarily in a theological sense; but the menaces must be truly menacing, life-destroying, and antithetical to happiness.

This place was not divine. It was enchanted, which was a different thing altogether.

We Are All Legends (1981)

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