A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Wil or nill. Any man who could discover his own fate and elect therefore some opposite course could only come at last to that selfsame reckoni...
A kapitány bólintott. Összekulcsolt kezét a két térde közé eresztette. Na és a békeszerződésről mi a véleményed? kérdezte. A gyerek a mellete ülő férfire tekintett. De az behunyt szemmel ült hátradőlv...
A few would quote him scripture to confound his ordering up of eons out of the ancient chaos and other apostate supposings. The judge smiled. Books lie, he said. God dont lie. No, said the judge. He d...
Some said they’d heard of pilgrims borne aloft like dervishes in those mindless coils to be dropped broken and bleeding upon the desert again and there perhaps to watch the thing that had destroyed th...
And for a moment he held out his hands as if to steady himself or as if to bless the ground there or perhaps as if to slow the world that was rushing away and seemed to care nothing for the old or the...
A bad map is worse than no map at all for it engendered in the traveler a false confidence and might easily cause him to set aside these instincts which would otherwise guide him if he would but place...
You're a formidable riddler and I'll not match words with ye
You don't know shit from apple butter.
You can think of me as a faithless slut if you like. I've taken a new lover. He can give me what you cannot.Death is not a lover.Oh yes he is.
You can tell it any way you want but that's the way it is. I should of done it and I didn’t. And some part of me has never quit wishin I could go back. And I cant. I didn’t know you could steal your o...
You can be patriotic and still believe that some things cost more than what they're worth.
Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
When you’re a kid you have these notions about how things are goin to be, Billy said. You get a little older and you pull back some on that. I think you just wind up tryin to minimize the pain. Anyway...
When they had arranged their blankets the boy lowered the lamp and stepped into the yard and pulled the door shut behind, leaving them in profound and absolute darkness. No one moved. In that cold sta...
When the flames came up her eyes burned out there like gatelamps to another world. A world burning on the shore of an unknowable void. A world construed out of blood and blood's alcahest and blood in...
What could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream
We're going to be okay, aren't we Papa?Yes. We are.And nothing bad is going to happen to us.That's right.Because we're carrying the fire.Yes. Because we're carrying the fire.
Trust me, Moss said.I hate hearin them words, the driver said. I always did.Have you ever said them?Yeah. I've said em. That's how come I know what they're worth.
Trousers rolled to the knee but still they got wet. They tied the rope to a cleat at the rear of the boat and rowed back across the lake, jerking the stump slowly behind them. By then it was already e...
They put their animals to the ford and crossed, the water up under the horses’ bellies and the horses picking their way over the rocks and glancing wildly upstream where a cataract thundered out of th...