There's more to clothing than just adornment. It does more than merely change how the world perceives us. It changes how we perceive ourselves.
I had grown to love the very city in all its decrepit grandeur. I had walked every inch of it by now. I knew it in the soles of my feet, in the sturdy muscles of my calves. Surely the finding mattered...
I preferred a hard truth to a well-meant lie.
I took a slice of melon and perched on the edge of a couch, watching them both, patently uncomfortable with the undefined nature of my role here.
It is what I do. If you wish to thank me, do a kindness for someone in need.
Lifting his head, Quincel de Morhban looked at me with something like awe. It’s true, he whispered. What they say … Kushiel’s Dart. It’s all true. Yes, my lord, I murmured; if he’d told me the moon wa...
My taste is for spices, and not sweets.
Non c'è roccia su cui l'anima mortale possa naufragare che non contenga qualche delicato viticcio di gentilezza umana che lotta per sopravvivere.
Sidonie, I know you don't remember it, but you once promised to trust me beyond all reason. And I swear to you that all that I am, all that I possess, including this gem-stone, is yours. I need you. I...
Why did Ysandre send you? he asked softly, testing. I pushed my chair back from the table, struggling to my feet, fighting the dark blood-tide. Somewhere, I thought, listening, somewhere Joscelin is t...
Years ago, I had a teacher who taught me that all ways lead to the Way, I said slowly, thinking. That there is a great truth behind all the truths of the world, and the faces of the gods are masks tha...
You’ve a way of putting matters into perspective. You’re young. Urist smiled slightly. You’ll learn the trick of it.
Vengeance and love didn’t make for good bedfellows.
But to force growth is to kill it.
Custodire i segreti è l'unico potere che un bambino può sperare di esercitare nei confronti degli adulti.
For every victory, Necthana whispered, her great dark eyes shining with a mother's tears, there is a price.
How do you want to die, Admiral? We are D'Angeline. At the hand of numbers, or dreams?
We are all these things [...]. Pride, desire, compassion, cleverness, belligerence, fruitfulness, loyalty...and guilt. But above it all stands love. And if we desire to be more than human, that is the...
You like him?I nodded. I like him. Hell, Mogwai likes him.You could pick a worse judge of character than your cat, she said in a pragmatic voice.
Pain and pleasure, yes, of course, but there are others, too. Cruelty, humiliation, dominance ... and compassion and kindness. It took all of these, to make truly exquisite music. That was the part so...
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