The world was full of life, more life than they could hold back with guns or fences; it came into the town at night; it seduced the children and year by year crept closer.
Is that the end... of all the races and civilizations, and the dreams of the world, to be able to leave a few stones buried beneath the sands, to tell the Dark that we were here?
But, oh, how precious those things were! To look at the sky, breathe the cold wind, have fingers nipped by chill and skin stung red and heart stirred to life, gods, he had been dead until Tristen arri...
But his political sense kept up a persistent itch that said: A, Given ignorance in the mix, stupidity was at least as common in politics as astute maneuvering; B, Crisis always drew insects; and, C, I...
A bizarre hysteria, perhaps, that point which many reached here, when anger was all that mattered. It led to self-destruction.
It struck at the root of intentions, not at the flower. And both root and the flower were important to him, one having to do with what one meant to do... and the other, most fearsome, with the outcome...
Yes, aiji-ma. What is this agreement? You are most valuable when you argue, paidhi! Do not say yes to me! I shall most strenuously object when you are wrong, aiji-ma. You have been infallibly right at...
What the visual media could not carry into living rooms, the general public could not long remain exercised about. Statistically, a majority of the electorate could not or did not read complicated iss...
That’s why the forms matter. People have to see things done by the rules. We’ve got to make people feel safe again and make them believe that compromises are going to be binding.
Take care of him, her father had charged her. She had thought - until he wakes. But she began to see what her father had trusted to her, and how very much Sasha needed someone he could trust-Someone a...
For another—you can move faster than she can. You are as recognizable as she is. And you are willing to take cover. We are not so certain about the dowager.
Don't mourn might-have-beens . Magic can't work backwards , only forward . I taught you better than that .
Unquestioning believers who thought they questioned everything, unhearing believers who heard nothing that in the least degree questioned the tenets of their sacred quest toward a salvation they prede...
Their minds were geared to the old problems and to their own problems and their own politics.
Myself, I love the woods. I love the wild places. Ask me where I'd go for a vacation and it invariably involves the open country. Ask me where I'd live, however, and it would always be in the center,...
He had no wish to be killed by a bogle in which he resolutely did not believe.
Trust was a word you couldn't translate. But the atevi had fourteen words for betrayal.
Trouble didn’t just come in threes: it gathered passengers as it went, and crashed nastily into bystanders.
I couldn’t yet see the limits of my life, but he could see the limits of his. His life was thin, and he had a hunger for recognition.
He knew that he wielded magic as well as iron, and yet looked away from it, and made himself fables to explain his own presence in the world, and sought gods who might be more powerful than himself. I...