My contrariness kept Char laughing, and his goodness kept me in love.
I can see that. She is lovely, very different from you. Oh, my clumsy tongue. Vollys's bells clanged. You are lovely too, but in a quieter way. In temperament I see that you are different as well. She...
Food for thought requires a mind with teeth.
We don’t do big magic. Lucinda’s the only one. It’s too dangerous.What’s dangerous about ending a storm?Maybe nothing, maybe something. Use your imagination.Clear skies would be good. People could go...
Edmund,
If it had writing, I read it: cereal boxes, ads on the subway, billboards, highway signs. I
I saw the other loners the way everyone else did-as unappealing, as to be avoided at all costs. If I hung out with one of them, I thought, my unpopular status would get worse, not better, because it w...
Would you favor me with a dance? Over all the others I was his choice! I curtsied, and he took my hand. Our hands knew each other. Char looked at me, startled. Have we met before, Lady?
Everyone dies. You needn't go on about it so.
No sign of pleasure greeted the announcement. The mood in the hall was leaden.My mood was livelier. Fright is livelier than lead.
She asks why I like her.Might as well askWhy I breathe.Maybe tomorrow I won'tBreathe or like herAnymore.Maybe tomorrow the tidesWill stop.Maybe tomorrow will bringNo more rainbows.Maybe tomorrowShe wi...
Queer Ducks flock together.
Pink, gold, blue. I choose you!
Everyone called it losing Mother, but she wasn’t lost. She was gone, and no matter where I went — another town, another country, Fairyland, or Gnome Caverns — I wouldn’t find her
He -it- was a specter! I stepped back, stunned.
What would I hold on to up there? His great ears? What if I fell and pulled an ear off with me, or grabbed his silver pendant and swung from his neck like a bell clapper? No, thank you.
No one is here, Char said. You need resist temptation no longer. Only if you slide too. I'll go first so I can catch you at the bottom. He flew down so incautiously that I suspected him of years of pr...
Luck was with me. I saw no spiders.Luck was against me. I saw no specters.
I refused to love it. He was going to sell it too
Father asks frequently in his letters whether I fancy any Ayorthaian young lady or any in our acquaintance at home. I say no I suppose I'm confessing another fault: pride. I don't want him to know tha...
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