There was something that hurt him in the way the hills rose so gently from the broad, rich southern plain. Something painful in the lazy curves of the river, golden under a sinking sun, shadowed by th...
People had no more choice than animals about the burdens they carried.
Orien, Birle protested again. You can stay if you must. Orien’s cheeks were hollow with hunger and he had little strength for anger. But I wish you’d come. I don’t know how long it would be before I c...
Miss Koala, the Eastern Star, and the Simón Bolívar.
It took another time, more waves rolling up, to understand that he had no idea what it would be like to live without fear at his elbow, warning him, keeping him safe, keeping him frightened.
If they were afloat on the sea, and blind in the fog — they didn’t even know what direction they should turn in. What then did it matter that she knew reading and writing, or that he had been caught o...
Dicey felt a great weight settle on her shoulders. She tried to shrug it off, but it wouldn’t move.
Beriel shone with it, like a sun, the Queen in her Kingdom. It was as if each breath she drew increased her pleasure, breathing that air. It was as if each hoof the chestnut planted onto the earth inc...
A really good friend, the kind of friend who - when they were together both of them were more able to be who they really were.
The air in the library rooms was silent, full of ideas, the thinking of the writers of books, the thinking of the readers of books.
Ideas, he knew from experience, arrived in their own good time, dressed exactly the way they wanted to be and saying only as much as they felt like.
I got to thinking—when it was too late—you have to reach out to people. To your family, too. You can't just let them sit there, you should put your hand out. If they slap it back, well you reach out a...
He knew it was perfect, and perfectly beautiful. He thought about how much she would like it. When he thought like that, happiness swelled up warm within him.
She sat with her back to her fear, as to the wind and waves. Fear blew and sprayed at her back but she dared not turn around to face it.
People can be unimaginably foolish...and they can be unimaginably grand, at times.