When you are alone, you have all the time in the world to practice whistling like a bird. When there is no one in the world you can turn to, a horse or .even a lion may give you companionship. When yo...
What are counting words? They are … names for the marks on your sticks, for one thing, for other things too. They are used to say the number of … anything. They can say how many deer a scout has seen,...
The motion of a glacier was outward in all directions from its origin, and the speed of its motion depended on the slope of its surface, not on the slope of the ground underneath. If the surface slope...
La mano y la vista hacen al artista.
It wasn’t exultation she felt, not the excitement of a first kill or even the satisfaction of overcoming a powerful beast. It was something deeper, more humbling. It was the knowledge that she had ove...
I think we all have an obligation to teach children whatever we can,
He was an abomination precisely because they saw his humanity, but degraded it and would not recognize it.
Hablan con sombras en la lengua.
Brun, this is the man Ayla saw as whole. This is the man who set her standard. This is the man she loves and compares with her son. Look at me, my brother! Did I deserve to live? Does Ayla’s son deser...
You learn to write by writing, and by reading and thinking about how writers have created their characters and invented their stories. If you are not a reader, don't even think about being a writer.
Were greeted warmly, but Ayla felt they were interrupting something. Everyone seemed to be looking at them, as though
Was dark and no more inviting
Flickering lamps scattered here
Body
Though the ones who had come before them had slowly developed and improved various implements and tools, the people like Jondalar and Ayla were the first to imagine and innovate to such an extravagant...
Not only could he share the memories, and control them, he could keep the link intact as their thoughts moved through time from the past to the present. The men of his clan enjoyed a richer, fuller ce...
It’s harder to kill people. The empathy is so much stronger that the mind must invent new reasons. But, if we can somehow link it to our own survival, the mind will make the devious twists and turns n...
Impetuously, with the uninhibited reactions of a child, she reached out to touch his face, to see if the scar felt different.
How had the strange child charmed her way into his heart so quickly?
Ese aperitivo que es el hambre contribuía a que todo tuviera mejor sabor aún.