…and do you know what?What?People don’t talk about anything.

…and I’m thinking how nothing is as simple as you guess-not right or wrong, not Judd Travers, not even me or this dog I got here. But the good part is I saved Shiloh and opened my eyes some. Now that...

…and Aunt Jo retired, satisfied with the success of her last trap to catch a sunbeam.

…always felt the pain of her friends so keenly that she could not speak easy, fluent words of comforting. Besides, she remembered how well-meant speeches had hurt her in her own sorrow and was afraid.

…a woman's always safe and comfortable when a fellow's down on his luck.

…a story is like a virus that can rage only for as long as there are new hosts to infect.

…a lie, once uttered, changes reality just as surely as if it were a great truth.

…a cynic who was still saddened whenever his jaundiced view of mankind was confirmed...

…[T]he whole thing is really a dazzling illusion empty of all perception, an astonishing farce of misperception. And yet what are we to do about this terribly significant business of other people, whi...

…[Changers] were a threat to identity, a challenge to the individualism even of those they were never likely to impersonate. It had nothing to do with souls or physical or spiritual possession; it was...

…Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done—so I do it. And it makes me happy w...

…When you’ve know me longer, you’ll learn that I mean everything I say.Even the lies?Especially the lies. Lord Petyr…

…We were born vampires.I thought you became –— vampires by being bitten? Dear me, no. Oh, we can turn people into vampires, it’s an easy technique, but what would be the point? When you eat… now what...

…Those who’ve marred their appearance in any way by their actions in life aren’t forced to witness that marring. If they were, they’d become self-conscious and be unable to concentrate on improving th...

…This singular reversal may perhaps proceed from the fact that for us the subject (since Christianity) is the one who suffers: where there is a wound, there is a subject: die Wunde! die Wunde! says Pa...

…They think of suicide as a quick route to oblivion, an escape. Far from it. It merely alters a person from one form to another. Nothing can destroy the spirit. Suicide only precipitates a darker cont...

…Then another porpoise broke the water and rolled toward us. A third and fourth porpoise neared. The visitation was something so rare and perfect that we knew by instinct not to speak—and then as quic...

…The wonders of life and the universe are mere reflections of microscopic particles engaged in a pointless dance fully choreographed by the laws of physics.

…Something isn’t right with you and this property. Strange things happen around it. I don’t know what is going on, but I will find out. You could make it easier on yourself by coming clean.Sure. This...

…So, um, you’re from Rochester? Like, New York? Jersey asked.Yup, we used to live out there, Rudger confirmed, nonchalant. You ever been?Naw, the closest I’ve ever been to there would be… well, believ...