We were underground', she said. 'Not just the pipeworks, everything!
Tick wanted power. He wanted glory. He wanted war, with himself in command. He had raised his army by attacking his own people.
The day had a strange but comforting feel to it, like a rest between the end of one time and the beginning of another.
Signs of craziness, like Hoyt McCoy dancing around naked? Disgusting filthiness, like a smelly outhouse or rat-swarmed garbage?
It was more of a castle than a house. It loomed over them, immense and massive, three stories high.
His vision of the future, already shadowed by anxiety, had just grown several shades darker.
Unintended consequences, he thought miserably.He was angry at his anger, the way it surged upand took over.
Then there might be dead people.
In the second row was a boy named Doon Harrow. He sat with his shoulders hunched, his eyes squeezed shut in concentration, and his hands clasped tightly together. His hair looked rumpled, as if he had...
This world was huge. There must be another place in it for the people of Ember.
Think about what it would mean to fight, he said. Say we barricade ourselves here in the hotel and refuse to leave. They come at us with their Weapon, whatever it is. Some of us are hurt, some die. We...
The main thing to do is pay attention. Pay close attention to everything, notice what no one else notices. Then you'll know what no one else knows, and that's always useful.
She looked powerful, Lina thought, even though she was very short.
She flicked off the TV.
Lina didn't really feel cold but she did feel sad, which was in a way the same.
It’s for my God, the god of dogs, and snakes and dust mites and albino bears and Siamese twins, the god of stars and starships and other dimensions, the god who loves everyone and makes everything mar...
Goats and oxen, pulling carts in from the field, left their big, smelly plops all over. these got cleaned up eventually-someone came and scraped them into buckets and took them away-but often this did...
A person who thought he knew everything simply didn't understand how much there was to know.
Like a pack of wolves across the planet, and people were afraid for the survival of the human race.
You should THINK about what's the right thing to do. Not just take someone's word for it -Grover