This is what fun is like, said Rain, almost to herself.
In the end, all disguises must drop.
I need some advice I can use.Advice? Don't use your energies fretting. The morning is wiser than the night, my ducky. The train will be back in the station by dawn. If it's not, you're welcome to star...
History is a long time in the making.
The circularity of influence was like a trail of dominoes falling in four dimensions. Each time one slapped another and fell to the ground, from a different vantage point it appeared knocked upright,...
So Elena goes out. Can you see her? Over there, on the path by the fence made of wire and disoriented wooden rails. Now in the shadows of the juniper, now coming into the light. There.
Secrets are revealed as you are ready to understand them. It seems capricious and mean-spirited of the Grimmerie to hold back, to yield and then to tease with a single page – but then the world is the...
If you're ever in doubt, throw a pepper in the air. If it fails to come down, you have gone mad, so don't trust in anything.
I learned failure early and mastered it.
How very like a dream this all is.
Don’t let me get sappy on you, but when you get right down to it, every collection of letters is a magic spell, even if it’s a moronic proclamation by the Emperor. Words have their impact, girl. Mind...
Do good though, will you? She blinked brightly at the green girl. If not for your parents or your grandmother, then for me?
Children played at those stories; they dreamed about them. They took them to heart and acted as if to live inside them.
Bent ostentatiously to her work.
Those who sit in the house of grief will someday sit in the garden.
The real thing about evil… you figure out one side of it - the human side, say - and the eternal side goes into shadow. Or vice versa. The real disaster of this inquiry is that it is the nature of evi...
Oh my darling, oh my darling, oh my darling porcupine, she crooned. Little critters fried like fritters come out crunchy and divine.
I take responsibility only for the future, not the past. The past can't hurt you the way the future can.
E tu? - Perguntou o Espantalho ao Lenhador de Lata,- O que farei se ganhar um coração? - Zombou este. - Despedaçá-lo-ei constantemente, suponho.
You can't criticize the size of a world.