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Amazing? My heart fluttered. “But I don’t want Flash or Harry,” I murmured. “You want Spider-Man,” he finished for me, looking a little wistful. I shrugged. “And Peter Parker.” He looked at me, very seriously. “Then don’t settle,” he said.
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J.M. Richards (Tall, Dark Streak of Lightning (Dark Lightning Trilogy, #1))
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He’s a spider. A web-weaver, with lines stringing out in all directions. He sits at the centre and interprets each tug.
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Robin Hobb (The Tawny Man Trilogy Books 2 & 3: The Golden Fool / Fool's Fate)
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Third-eye magic? Only man need a third eye. Woman fine with two, sometimes one.
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Marlon James (Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2))
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The only difference between who is a witch and who is not is one man's mouth,' say the cook.
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Marlon James (Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2))
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I admire that a woman can do people like a man. You just get up one day and gone. No drums, no pigeons, no note, no word, no nothing.
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Marlon James (Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2))
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Corinne told us that revolution was brewing in the hills to the north, under the leadership of a man named Miranda, who with absurd inevitability had styled himself El Supremo.
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Spider Robinson (Callahan's Crosstime Saloon (Callahan's Place Trilogy, #1))
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Word is divine wish, they say. Word is invisible to all but the gods. So when woman or man write words, they dare to look at the divine.
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Marlon James (Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2))
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To be a man you do as man do. Master one thing and you can fail at everything else, for to be a man is to fail at everything else. Here is the one thing. What men do in all things, more than anything, is take up space, whether he be priest, king, beggar, or hunter. Whether he be living or dead. More space than he need, and more space than he will use.
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Marlon James (Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2))
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Lengthy, sometimes barely comprehensible late-night e-mails from the boss, panicking about the latest crisis and the state of Sony’s business, had long been a fact of life for Pascal’s subordinates. But as stress at the office grew, these communications became even more common. “The un marvel marvel world that is rooted in humanity but instead of it being like a trilogy or a story this is the opening of a world that will be unleashed,” Pascal wrote one night at 10:48 in an attempt to figure out what to do with Spider-Man. “A little too late for me to decipher your poetry,” responded Belgrad.
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Ben Fritz (The Big Picture: The Fight for the Future of Movies)
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The affable Feige would never admit it to Pascal’s face, but he and his team at Marvel had for years disliked what Sony had been doing with the character. He thought that restarting with The Amazing Spider-Man, rather than moving on from Raimi’s mistakes in Spider-Man 3, had been a big mistake. “In a million years I would never advocate rebooting . . . Iron Man,” Feige wrote to Marvel Entertainment’s president, Alan Fine, and its vice president of production, Tom Cohen. “To me it’s James Bond and we can keep telling new stories for decades even with different actors.” Fine concurred: “I think that it is a mistake to deny the original trilogy its place in the canon of the Spider-Man cinematic universe. What are you telling the audience? That the original trilogy is a mistake, a total false-hood?” He had even harsher words for the script of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 that the Marvel trio had recently read: “I found this draft tedious, boring, and had to force myself to read it through . . . This story is way too dark, way too depressing. I wanted to burn the draft after I read it never mind thinking about buying the DVD.” The
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Ben Fritz (The Big Picture: The Fight for the Future of Movies)