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Fourteen-year-old Thomas Cale is an acolyte of the Redeemers, struggling, like other boys his age and younger, to live up to the harsh standards of the Sanctuary. When he is sent to the Lord of Discipline for a minor infraction, he stumbles on a scene of vivisection and kills the Redeemer in... read more
Characters edit
- Thomas Cale: Mysterious young man with gifts that come into play throughout the story. He is capable of acts of great violence, but also actions of selfless compassion.
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- Kitty Der Hase
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Quotes edit
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“There are few ways of putting people in a good humour other than by telling them of some terrible misfortune that has befallen you.”
Idris Pukke -
“I don't suppose you'll forget me a second time.”
Cale -
“great men have great responsibilities, and keeping his promises is one of them.”
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“There is a limit to how much we should expect of the capacity for acceptance of other people. It might be better, if the subject should ever arise in good company, not to mention the rats.”
Idris Pukke -
“No drug, however rare and expensive, offers the wonderful pleasure of being the centre of another's dreams and desires while being able to, with only a smile and a look, to shatter them completely.”
Narrator -
“In stories of the good and bad it's only the good who are subject to dreadful luck, mischance and blundering. The bad are always sharp and act with discipline, have cunning plans only just thwarted in the nick of time. The evil are always on the cusp of winning ways.”
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“Every philosopher can stand the toothache except the one who has it.”
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“The unfairness of life - always the best argument.”
Idris Pukke -
“smoking - it is a childish affectation: a habit loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, causes the breath to stink and makes any man who takes it for long enough effeminate..”
Vipond -
“if you only knew with what little sense the world is run. There has been no disaster visited on mankind that was not warned of by someone - never not in all history of the world ..... That's how the world is and there is nothing an insignificant nobody like you, or even a significant somebody like me, can do about it.”
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“Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it as it is to its victims - the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is that nobody really possesses the kind of power that you have for long. Those who have it on loan from Fate count on it too much and are themselves destroyed.”
Vipond -
“I have a message for your daughter. I am bound to her by cables that not even God can break. One day, if there is a soft breeze on her cheek, it may be my breathe; one night, if the cool wind plays with her hair, it may be my shadow passing.”
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“You know, Albin, the older I get the more I believe that if love is to be judged by most of its visible effects, it looks more like hatred than friendship.”
Vipond
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“No one of real intelligence will accept anything just because some authority declares it to be so. Don’t accept the truth of anything you have not confirmed for yourself.”
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you—to desire love, as some great wit once said, is to desire to be chained to a lunatic.”
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“To be sociable,” IdrisPukke continued, “is a risky thing—even fatal—because it means being in contact with people, most of whom are dull, perverse and ignorant and are really with you only because they cannot bear their own company.
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“Any fool can say they don’t rely on anyone. The trouble is that sometimes you have to. People can be noble and self-sacrificing and all those admirable qualities—they do exist, but the trouble is that these noble virtues tend to come and go in people. No one expects a good-humored man or a kind woman to be good-humored or kind every day and every moment—yet they’re appalled when people are trustworthy for a month or a year and then they aren’t for an hour or a day.”
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“Love between a man and woman is the best possible example of the fact that all this world’s hopes are an absurd delusion, and it is so because of the fact that love promises so excessively much and performs so excessively little.”
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“Solitude is a wonderful thing, Cale, and in two ways. First, it allows a man to be with himself, and second, it prevents him being with others.”
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“There are only two of us,” pointed out IdrisPukke. “Yes,” replied Cale. “But one of the two of us is me.”
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It was once famously said that it is as well that wars are so ruinously expensive, else we would never stop fighting them. However well said, it seems also to be endlessly forgotten that, while there may be just wars and unjust wars, there are never any cheap wars.
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Series & Lists edit
This is book 1 of 2 in The Left Hand of God Trilogy. (standard series)
Followed by The Last Four Things.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Paul Hoffman (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Dutton Adult/Penguin Group
Country: USA
Publication Date: June 15, 2010
ISBN: 0525951318
Page Count: 384
Publisher: Dutton Adult/Penguin Group
Country: USA
Publication Date: June 15, 2010
ISBN: 0525951318
Page Count: 384
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 823.914
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