Down the stone steps to the windswept beach, her raven tresses flowing out behind her. She scanned the empty sands, and when she saw no sign of Blaine, a great cry of anguish escaped her lips. She cou...
His sympathy made tears spring to Lina's eyes. Doon looked startled for a moment, and then he took a step toward her and wrapped his arms around her. He gave her a squeeze so quick and tight that it m...
What you get is what you get. What you DO with what you get, though...that's more the point, wouldn't you say -Doon's Father
Tick wanted power. He wanted glory. He wanted war, with himself in command. He had raised his army
Crystal didn’t like delays. She was a fast-moving, efficient person, and when her way was blocked, she became very tense and spoke with her lips in two hard lines.
They lifted their faces to the astonishing warmth. The sky arched over them, a pale, clear blue. Lina felt as though a lid that had been on her all her life had been lifted off. Light and air rushed t...
Wouldn't it be strange, she thought, to have a blue sky? But she liked the way it looked. It would be beautiful - a blue sky.
Signs of craziness, like Hoyt McCoy dancing around naked? Disgusting filthiness, like a smelly outhouse or rat-swarmed garbage?
The day had a strange but comforting feel to it, like a rest between the end of one time and the beginning of another.
Beeson, wearing a rain jacket with the hood up over her
What must the ancient world have been like, she wondered, with all these strange things moving around in it? Was it wonderful or terrible?
But that was what made things so exciting--nothing was ever how you expected it to be.
Church of the Fiery Vision.
Maybe there was no happily ever after [...] but there was happiness sometimes and she had it now, doing what she knew she was born for.
Doon went up close to the wall of the hotel and examined the words scratched there. He pictured the people who had done it, clutching their burnt chunks of wood, writing with big, angry strokes in the...
Every time she thought about him, she felt a thud of pain, like a bruised place inside her.
Father: And when anger is the boss, you get-Doon: Unintended consequences.
People didn't make life, so they can't destroy it. Even if we were to wipe out every bit of life in the world, we can't touch the place life comes from. Whatever made plants and animals and people spr...
When anger is in control, you get unintended consequences.
She looked powerful, Lina thought, even though she was very short.
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