This is what’ll happen, she said, and it’s true, perfectly true. When you go out of here, all the particles that make you up will loosen and float apart, just like your daemons did. If you’ve seen peo...

This much I do know - I'm exhausted by the cumulative consequences of a lifetime of hasty choices and chaotic passions.

This was the sort of ebullience and élan I prayed for when I felt the desire to write. I used to sit down and wait for this to happen. But it never did happen- not this way. It happened afterwards, so...

Until death, Jem replied gently. Those are the words of the oath. 'Until aught but death part thee and me.' Someday, Will, I will go where none can follow me, and I think it will be sooner rather than...

Was he he handsome? she asked with a sly smirk.Very. He is still, I think.

Then Frodo came forward and took the crown from Faramir and bore it to Gandalf; and Aragorn knelt, and Gandalf set the White Crown upon his head and said:Now come the days of the King, and may they be...

The shame and disorder in his house were like the shame and disorder in his head.

The society killed Kendra.

The sunlight had broken through the trees and landed on her like a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow.

There are a number of good books that draw upon fox legends -- foremost among them, Kij Johnson's exquisite novel . I also recommend Neil Gaiman's  (with the Japanese artist Yoshitaka Amano);  Larissa...

They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.

This little piggy went to HadesThis little piggy stayed homeThis little piggy ate raw and steaming human flesh

We could— he started, then stopped, swallowed, and started again. We could become parabatai. He said it shyly, half-turning his face away from her, so that the shadows partially hid his expression. Th...

We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.

Since thirteen, she’d been preparing. She wasn’t beautiful like these Bayhead Harbor girls, but it was surprising how men sometimes looked at her. More it was older men rather than guys her age, for s...

To begin with, you've got to understand that a seagull is an unlimited idea of freedom, an image of the Great Gull, and your whole body, from wingtip to wingtip, is nothing more than your thought itse...

To devastate is easier and more spectacular than to create.

Unfortunately, to try to disconnect faith from vision is to do violence to the whole personality, and the whole personality participates in the act of writing. The tensions of being a Catholic novelis...

The men and women of the Golden Age, Hesiod wrote, lived in an eternal spring, for hundreds of years, always youthful, fed on acorns from a great oak, on wild fruits, on honey. In the Silver Age, whic...

Tatkala semesta menciut menjadi sesosok makhluk, tatkala sesosok makhluk meluas bahkan sampai menjangkau Tuhan, maka itulah cinta.