The real thing about evil, said the Witch at the doorway, isn't any of what you said. You figure out one side of it - the human side, say - and the eternal side goes into shadow. Or vice versa. It's l...
This is what fun is like, said Rain, almost to herself.
The world was floods above and fire below
The beauty of the day is the only thing that doesn't fade in time. Day after day, such beauty revives itself.
I learned failure early and mastered it.
Happy endings are still endings.
A perfect word for my new life. Unbecoming. I who have always been unbecoming am becoming un.
You leave home, I have learned, counting the trip day by day. If you ever get to return, you count the trip miracle by miracle.
Under every roof, a story, just as behind every brow, a history
Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.
Just my luck, if I believed in luck. I only believe in the opposite of luck, whatever that is.
It isn't whether you do it well or ill, it's that you do it all.
In order to remember who you are, you have to have known it in the first place.
I like the sound of words, but I don't ever really expect my slow, slanted impression of the world to change by what I read.
Hush, child don't ask personal questions, said the Lion.That's the only kind I have, said Rain.
Your childhood, said Yackle coaxingly, as if she could smell his thoughts. As if she could sniff out those passages he hadn't chosen to retail at drink parties. Her words lulled him. The past, even a...
When the times are a crucible, when the air is full of crisis those who are the most themselves are the victims.
There's a reason we live in time. We are too small a flask [...] to tolerate too much knowing. Instead, truth must drip through us as through a pipette, to allow only moments of apprehension. Moments...
Is it only in childhood that we are capable of taking in the whole world?What does it do to us that we briefly have that privilege? And, then, what harm , when the fund of novelty in human experience...
In the end, all disguises must drop.