If you break little promises you’ll break big ones.
He said that the world was sentient to its core and secret and black beyond men's imagining and that its nature did not reside in what could be seen or not seen.
If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
He thought there could be deathships out there yet, drifting with their lolling rags of sail. Or life in the deep. Great squid propelling themselves over the floor of the sea in the cold darkness. Shu...
I yearn for the darkness. I pray for death. Real death. If I thought that in death I would meet the people I've known in life I don't know what I'd do. That would be the ultimate horror. The ultimate...
If fate is the law, then is fate also subject to that law? At some point we cannot escape naming responsibility. It's in our nature. Sometimes I think we are all like that myopic coiner at his press,...
But the second one it was like we was both back in older times and I was on horseback goin through the mountains of a night. Goin through this pass in the mountains. It was cold and there was snow on...
Every day is a lie. But you are dying. That is not a lie.
Gray vines coiled leftward in this northern hemisphere, what winds them shapes the dogwhelk's shell.
He got up and walked out to the road. The black shape of it running from dark to dark. Then the distant low rumble. Not thunder. You could feel it under your feet. A sound without cognate and so witho...
God made this world, but he didn't make it to suit everybody, did he?
If you break little promises you’ll break big ones. That’s what you said.
If I'm not here you can still talk to me. You can talk to me and I'll talk to you. You'll see.
He'd long forsworn all weighing of consequence and allowing as he did that men's destinies are given yet he usurped to contain within him all that he would ever be in the world and all that the world...
Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
I tell you this, as war becomes
He knew only that the child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
His origins are become remote as is his destiny and not again in all the world’s turnings will there be terrains so wild and barbarous to try whether the stuff of creation may be shaped to man’s will...
I think it is better to make a study of smaller things. Then the larger will follow. In smaller things one can progress. There one's efforts are repaid.
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