The orange of the golden carp appeared at the edge of the pond. . . . We watched in silence at the beauty and grandeur of the great fish. Out of the corners of my eyes I saw Cico hold his hand to his...
The only sign of war was a cloud of dust migrating from east to west. It looked through the windows, trying to find a way inside, and as it simultaneously thickened and spread, it turned the trail of...
The distance between the library and the bedroom is astronomical
St. Augustine said, The very pleasures of human life men acquire by difficulties. There are times when the entire arrangement of our existence is disrupted and we long then for just one ordinary day -...
Sorcerers believe that an action taken for the right reasons has an unreasonable chance of success.
Queen Katherine, whose boys have all died, takes it patiently: that is to say, she suffers.
Pondering is a little like considering and a little like thinking, but looser. To ponder, one must let the facts roll around the rim of the mind's roulette wheel, coming to settle in whichever slot th...
People who are dependent are merely using alcohol as a crutch to get through the day. Yet doctors and scientists are still treating alcoholism as if it is the problem, when it has nothing to do with t...
Para comprender el estado de la humanidad puede que baste con saber que la mayoría de los grandes triunfos y grandes catástrofes de la historia no se deben a que las personas son buenas en esencia o m...
Nobody's perfect. We're all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels.
Nina looked up, her eyes fixing on mine with such ferocity I could almost see the undead vampire in them. There is something under here, she said, and I shivered.Yeah, we know, dirt nap, Jenks said.Ra...
Never trust a man who sits, uninvited, at the head of the table in another man's home.
Look at all the things that can go wrong for men. There’s the nothing-happening-at-all problem, the too-much-happening-too-soon problem, the dismal-droop-after-a-promising-beginning problem; there’s t...
Listen, Legs, I'm going to die anyway. I'm human. And I don't know about you, but I don't believe in visions of the future. I believe we choose our own destiny. You didn't give me a choice last time....
Kaltain Rompier unleashed her shadowfire upon them all.This was not the ghost of shadowfire they had made her kill with—the reason why they had first approached her, lied to her when they invited her...
Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken.
If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.
I held my bag open and he dropped Jenks inside.Hey! the pixy protested, and then, Tink's little pink dildo, Rache? Haven't you gotten rid of those condoms yet? They got a shelf life, you know.
I am so tired - so tired of being of being whirled on through all these phases of my life, in which nothing abides by me, no creature, no place; it is like the circle in which the victims of earthly p...
Hay mucha gente buena, Irina, pero es discreta. Los malos, en cambio, hacen mucho ruido, por eso se notan más.