Men were beasts. Everyone knew that.
Love makes hunters of us all.
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...
I am forty. [...] I know who I am. The treachery of possibilities that threaten to swamp a young guy -- I negotiated them. I'm on the other side. The safe side.Why then do I remember the perilous mome...
Everyone has a right to love the land that gave them the things they need to live. It gives them beauty to look at, and food to eat, and neighbors to bicker with and then eventually to marry. But I th...
As the first hard drops of rain fell, the Witch caught sight, not of the girl's face, but of the shoes. Her sister's shoes. They sparkled even in the darkening afternoon. They sparkled like yellow dia...
[Puggles] What population signs on willingly for slavery?You mean other than wives? [Glinda]
To read, even in the half-dark, is also to call the lost forward.
The overdressed traveler betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveler knows that the novel world about her serves as the most appropriate accessory.
Lost is not an address, it's not permission to fail, it's not an excuse.
How like a spoon with a razor edge is human need.
Everything changes you, and you change everything.
Children played at those stories; they dreamed about them. They took them to heart and acted as if to live inside them.
History takes a long time to happen.
The question ocasionally invents the answer. (142)
Oh now that's a blueprint for an impossibly rosy future
It doesn’t pose or represent the world. It becomes.
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.
Do good though, will you? She blinked brightly at the green girl. If not for your parents or your grandmother, then for me?
What will I do if I find myself with a heart?" "Lose it constantly, I imagine.