Not everyone is born a witch or a saint. Not everyone is born talented, or crooked, or blessed; some are born definite in no particular at all. We are a fountain of shimmering contradictions, most of...
No, my girl, you know nothing of how we women are imprisoned in our lives, but there are ways to determine the sentence we must serve.
No wonder Wonderland isn't funny to read anymore: We live there full time. We need a break from it.
No one survives in times of war unless they make war their home. How did I get so old and wise, but for welcoming war into my house and making friends with him? Better to befriend the enemy and hang o...
Memory is a part of the present. It builds us up inside; it knits our bones to our muscles and keeps our hearts pumping. It is memory that reminds our bodies to work, and memory that reminds our spiri...
Liir didn’t know what to say to that; he wasn’t sure what husbandry was.Animal husbandry, Trism explained, though in the noise of the bar, Liir couldn’t tell if he said Animal or animal, the sentient...
Light will blind us in time, but what we learn in the dark can see us through. To read, even in the half-dark, is also to call the lost forward.
I’m no pawn, said Glinda. I take all the credit in the world for my own foolishness. Good gracious, dear, all of life is a spell. You know that. But you do have some choice.
It’s the age of daring. It’s the only time we have. We must live in the present. We are young and alive.
It's the endlessly thinking about yourself that causes such heart shame.
It's heaven to know that it's still possible to run, though she doesn't know what she's running from.
In the lives of children, pumpkins can turn into coaches, mice and rats into human beings. When we grow up, we learn that it’s far more common for human beings to turn into rats. Nothing
If the unlettered farmers of Munchkinland and the factory workers of Gillikin believe that their fate is being determined by how the Time Dragon dreams them up, they don't need to bother to take respo...
I came here to propose that we meet from time to time. That we meet as friends. That, free of expectations, we come to know each other as dear friends. I do not deny that you overwhelm me with your be...
He had loved the girl who had loved the glamour in herself, and that girl seemed to have disappeared. But he was happy to have Glinda as a friend. Well, in a nutshell: he had loved Galinda and this no...
Frex had a notion that she wasn’t sorry to see him go off from time to time, so that she could be glad to see him come back.
Doğuştan bir yeteneğin varsa ya da doğuştan iyiliğe eğilimin varsa... Sonunda aklını kaçırıyorsun.
Chovia bastante naquela manhã. A luz tinha um tom acinzentado e musguento devido às nuvens baixas. Teve de admitir que a menina não era um cadáver. Estava viva. Talvez tivesse nascido gelada, mas agor...
By that token, you might forget an event, but you can never go back to living as you did before its hidden influence was applied upon you.
Behind her starry-eyed love of herself there IS a mind struggling to work. She DOES think about things. When her mind is really working, she could, if led, think on you--even, I suspect, somewhat fond...