Troublesome as females are when they step out of their proper roles as connivers, manipulators, gossips, backstabbers, and bearers and nurturers of the young, slaughtering them is not an acceptable fo...
Smeds could see the shadow of the future. Get Old Man Fish and Timmy Locan to kype the spike. Get dumb old Smeds to croak them when they do. Then take the loot and walk. Who is Smeds going to complain...
I'm an incurable romantic. The essence of romance is an unshakable conviction that next time will be different.
You feel guilty. You wonder why him and not me, then you're glad it was him and not you, then you feel guilty. Soldiers live. And wonder why.
The people come from everywhere, from five hundred miles, to find their fortunes. By fortune is an ugly, two-faced goddess. When you have lived with her handiwork for half a generation, you hardly not...
Wars are being fought every day, even where armies are not on the march. And wars within wars. And wars behind wars.
Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.
My guess is, six of one, half a dozen of the other. Crows
There is no vengeance as terrible as the vengeance a coward plots in the dark of his heart.
Order was what regular people wanted. Order and security were necessary before prosperity could take hold. The political crap, the who is going to be in charge, did not matter to most folks.
Thunderheads with lightning swords aflash on their brows grumbled and pounded the badlands, reminding me that trouble was not far away.
Cruel it may be, but most of us enjoy what we do—and the Captain more than anyone. This is a favorite game, matching wits with a Raker. He is blind to the dead, to the burning villages, to the starvin...
In religion, precise truth has almost no currency. True believers will kill and destroy to defend their inaccurate beliefs.
The fugitive blew through a doorway. I was only two steps behind, but when I got there the door was closed and locked. I flung one granite shoulder against it. It gave about a thousandth of an inch. Y...
What did we do today to frighten the world?
Second, the Stupidity Test. It’s unnecessary to invoke complex, convoluted conspiracy theories where plain old human stupidity suffices as an explanation.
Relway mused, Now that it’s happened I’m not so sure I’m happy with the outcome. Spared their racial theories The Call would’ve been good for TunFaire. He would appreciate their interest in law and or...
Maybe propinquity was counterproductive. *
Scruff of the neck and seat of the pants, and ran him out the door to the accompaniment of appropriate old-time remarks about seedy little army types who failed to acknowledge the natural superiority...
Little people have to hate, have to blame someone for their own inadequacies.
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