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Tiene la más terrible y aterradora de todas las Esquirlas. Reflexiona sobre eso un momento, viejo reptil, y dime si tu insistencia en la no intervención es firme. Porque te aseguro que Rayse no se inhibirá del mismo modo.
Brandon Sanderson • El Camino De Los Reyes
Just as the einherjar would fight for the gods at the Ragnarök, the drowned also had their station, although a terrible one that they do not seem to have earned. As all the powers gather at the end, something will stir on the ocean floor, the greatest Viking ship ever made. Its name is Naglfar, ‘Nail-Ship’, so called because it is built from the
... See moreNeil Price • The Children of Ash and Elm
Nothing else had been torched in the entire village. Only the church.
Nick Cutter • The Deep: A Novel
Judge, then, how all-desolating and withering the blast, that for Pierre, in one night, stripped his holiest shrine of all over-laid bloom, and buried the mild statue of the saint beneath the prostrated ruins of the soul's temple itself.
Herman Melville • Pierre; or The Ambiguities
I wished the boy safe travels, but these were empty words, for he was clearly doomed,
Patrick deWitt • The Sisters Brothers
Sometimes they are completely destroyed before you can free yourself from the obligations of others to douse the flames of distraction on your own divine connections and sovereign destiny.
Kris Vallotton • Destined To Win: How to Embrace Your God-Given Identity and Realize Your Kingdom Purpose
here was one of pervasive and palpable evil. A thick, demonic stench that rolls over you and clings like hot black tar. A nightmare from which you cannot awaken. A nameless fear that lives in the dark spaces beyond your peripheral vision and drives you toward inhuman cruelties and unspeakable perversions. The delegates’ bloated, pustulant bodies
... See moreJon Stewart • The Daily Show (The Book): An Oral History as Told by Jon Stewart, the Correspondents, Staff and Guests
The sacking of Babylon by the beast and his allies alludes to the contemporary myth of the return of Nero to destroy Rome. It is an image of the self-destructive nature of evil, which on the level of theological meaning is not inconsistent with the idea of the destruction of evil by divine judgment but presents it under another aspect. The fire of
... See moreRichard Bauckham • The Theology of the Book of Revelation (New Testament Theology)
“Seven half-bloods shall answer the call. To storm or fire, the world must fall. An oath to keep with a final breath, And foes bear arms to the Doors of Death.”