It's not all about getting your own way. Sometimes there's a bigger picture.
It is important to know what a person was. But it's more important to know what they are now.
In one form or another, it was one of the first implements created by ancient people to give voice to the mysteries that words cannot encompass, but that they had a need to express. Only the drum was...
I knew it wasn't simply escape that lay on the far side of the borders of fairyland. Instinctively I knew crossing over would mean more than fleeing the constant terror and shame that was mine at that...
I don't know, Kerry said. It doesn't feel like any medicine I ever took before. She raised a hand to her forehead. It really does feel like a light, shining inside me. How did you put it there? Maida...
But the evil people do, that's their responsibility. The burden they have to carry. Sure, when we see 'em starting on causing some hurt, we've got to try and stop 'em, but mostly what the rest of us s...
All forests have their own personality. I don't just mean the obvious differences, like how an English woodland is different from a Central American rain forest, or comparing tracts of West Coast redw...
There's stories and then there's stories. The ones with any worth change your life forever, perhaps only in a small way, but once you've heard them, they are forever a part of you. You nurture them an...
But this was what happened when you mined the past. You gave up control of the present.
The lies in fiction are such an effective way to tell emotional truths.
[She] had felt straight away that she wasn’t meeting a new friend, but recognizing an old one.
You’d be okay with somebody eating you? She shrugs. If I’m stupid enough to get caught, sure. Everybody’s got to eat. I’m not sure I’m comfortable with that idea. Nobody goes looking for it. But life...
When you're touched by magic, nothing's ever quite the same again. What really makes me sad is all those people who never have the chance to know that touch. They're too busy, or they just don't hold...
When I first began my career I had one dictum that I set myself: to be paid for my work, but not to work for pay. Fame makes it that much easier to follow that maxim. He gave her a sharp look. At leas...
There are as many stories to be told as there are people to tell them about; only the mean-spirited would consider there to be a competition at all.
The family we choose for ourselves is more important than the one we were born into; that people have to earn our respect and trust, not have it handed to them simply because of genetics.
Nothing strikes me as truly weird, Jilly told him. There’s only stuff I haven’t figured out yet.
Myslela jsem si, že se to stává, když je člověk starý.Denzil se zakuckal. A ty jsi poměrně stará, myslím. Sedmnáct, není-liž pravda?Osmnáct. A cítím se jako stařena.
I finally figured out that I’m solitary by nature, but at the same time I know so many people; so many people think they own a piece of me. They shift and move under my skin, like a parade of memories...
I figure all oracular devices are just a way for us to focus on what we already know, but can’t quite grab onto. It works the same as a ritual does in a church: You get enough people focused on someth...
