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So everyone in the Kingdom, from the richest baron and the most foppishly dressed courtier to the poorest serf and his ragged wife, thought and talked about the King in waiting, Roland’s elder son, Peter. And one man thought and planned and brooded on something else: how to make sure that Roland’s younger son, Thomas, should be crowned King instead. This man was Flagg, the King’s magician.
<The Eyes of the Dragon: A Novel>(King, Stephen) Your Highlight on page 2 | Location 32-35 2020-06-24 01:56:10
—one of the great things about tales is how fast time may pass when not much of note is happening. Real life is never that way, and it is probably a good thing.
<The Eyes of the Dragon: A Novel>(King, Stephen) Your Highlight on page 34 | Location 393-394 2020-06-25 00:23:45
And sometimes, when a particular thought is too unpleasant to bear, the person who has that thought will lock it into a heavy box and throw it into that well. He listens for the splash . . . and then the box is gone. Except it is not, of course. Not really.
<The Eyes of the Dragon: A Novel>(King, Stephen) Your Highlight on page 76 | Location 916-918 2020-06-29 00:42:06
because people are rarely at their best when they are alone. They usually put their masks of politeness, good order, and good breeding aside. What’s beneath? Some warty monster? Some disgusting thing that would make people run away, screaming? Sometimes, perhaps, but usually it’s nothing bad at all.
<The Eyes of the Dragon: A Novel>(King, Stephen) Your Highlight on page 90 | Location 1076-1078 2020-06-30 00:56:59
The salvation of all that is good is only this—at times of great import, evil beings sometimes fall strangely blind.
<The Eyes of the Dragon: A Novel>(King, Stephen) Your Highlight on page 243 | Location 2945-2946 2020-07-04 14:38:33