She thought it might have been his thought that wakened her, as he crept toward the solitary holding; she thought that the danger in his thoughts had reached out to awaken her as surely as an alarm be...
She felt funny, strange, making up lies as quickly and smoothly as if she’d been doing it all her life.
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...
Night’s darkness cloaked Elske, covering her as the winter snows cover mountains, from peak to foot. Elske moved with the weight of darkness on her shoulders, on her head; and she tasted it in her mou...
Mina wanted some of the kind of love Momma gave to her children, where love was the first and deepest thing, and the questions came later and the answers wouldn't matter much measured up against the l...
Men, and women too, are unpredictable creatures. You have seen little of this. I wonder now if your innocence is enough protection for you.
Maybeth always did that, brought her good news to the table and held it out, like a little kid holding out her hand, then unwrapping her fingers to show some treasure, some stone or flower. She held h...
Is there such a thing?' Birle asked.He looked thoughtfully at her, but not as if he saw her. 'Men have dreamed of it, although none has ever held it in his hand, not to my knowledge. I cannot say that...
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
People can be unimaginably foolish...and they can be unimaginably grand, at times.