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“Sew those back on while you’re at it. I’ll be back later with her fresh skin.”

'Once, far off in the distance, they saw the translucent coiling hump of a gigantic worm whale as it searched mournfully for a mate. The sound of its melancholic call echoed out in endless reverberations across the sea. Then there were the fabled spires of drowned Saliopolis, rising forever lost into the sky. What mysteries lay below them only the strange denizens, gliding silently beneath the waves, knew.'

'The spiders slept with him under the blankets, only waking to feed. When his dead skin ran out and all his pus was sucked away, they would start on the living.'

Fucking yuck! Dani's getting really good with this skin crawling ability of hers.

Damn it all, this character is bad ass. This entire story is bad ass. And both sides aren't even amassed at full strength yet.

What the hell is Goodkind's deal? I'm late in starting the Nicci Chronicles, but over in the latest Richard/Kahlan adventures, he had Lord Rahl travel to a Mars-like dimension to liberate reptile people. Beyond silly. Now he's introducing a character named Mirrormask in this. NEIL GAIMAN ALREADY USED THAT NAME!!!

'And what they had was a life packed with hard-earned meaning, a life more in keeping with the Bronze Age than with this new so-called “Information Age.”'

'They are the folks that had once built a dignified post-war country with their own two hands. They fended for themselves and stoically did what they had to do to survive the Dust Bowl, the Depression, and the War with the Huns. They went around putting things down, doing what they had to do. And the more I think about it, the more I believe those old bastards had something there.'

'The general election proved far easier than the nomination, though Theodore Roosevelt still overshadowed Wilson. “I do not [excite the public imagination],” Wilson explained. “He [TR] is a real, vivid person ... I am a vague, conjectural personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.”'