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The church has become a more...exclusive club since the founder’s day, it’s clear. No doubt the Devil is more hospitable.

— Tim Powers The Stress of Her Regard (1989)

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The wages of courage is death, lad, but it’s the wages of everything else, too.

The Drawing of the Dark (1979)

Some people, he thought, simply have no will to survive—they’re walking hors d’oeuvres waiting for someone who can spare the time to devour them.

Dinner at Deviant's Palace (1985)

“Maybe later,” he told her. “Time yet for a hundred indecisions.”

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Processions of priests and religiosi have been for several days past praying for rain; but the gods are either angry, or nature is too powerful.

The Stress of Her Regard (1989)

Every ruler wants to maintain the status quo.

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