You’re such a cynic, Molly said. I think cynics are playful and cute.
You’re such a pompous, arrogant, pretentious, chauvinistic, hopelessly old-fashioned, stupidly pigheaded
You’re unconscious, moron, my double said to me. We can finally talk to one another.
You’ve got it backward, Harry, he said. You are a soul. You have a body.
You’ve never been a peasant in medieval France, Harry, Bob said. Life was hard for those people. Never enough food, shelter, medicine. If you could give yourself a fur coat and the ability to go out a...
[He] stared at Rowl with flat eyes. Rowl yawned his unconcern. If you wish to keep those eyes, he said pleasantly, move them elsewhere.
[Mab] was pale, beautiful on a scale that beggared simple description, and I harbored a healthy and rational terror of her.
[Thomas said] I have my cell phone on me. Try to call before things start exploding.Maybe this time it'll be different. Maybe I'll work everything out through reason, diplomacy, dialogue, and mutual c...
A captain should know the details of every position in his ship’s company by working them with his own hands, stem to stern. It’s the only way to be sure you know what each man needs from his captain...
A door standing open that shouldn’t be; a shadow on the floor with no source to cast it; a cat purring and rubbing up against a favorite person—who isn’t there.
A man glided out of the limo. He was tall, pale as a statue. Sable hair fell in tousled curls to his shoulders. He was dressed in a pair of opalescent butterfly wings that rose from his shoulders, fas...
The border’s been waggling back and forth like a hooker at a dockworker’s convention.
And several bulging bookshelves which I really will organize one day.
And to my dog, without whom I would not be reminded daily that I am essentially little more than a ridiculous human being who has somehow swindled somebody into paying me to write down conversations w...
Another pang of half-remembered days long gone made my chest ache for a second.
Are dangerous. Wills are dangerous. You are heavily armed with both. Tavi
Beer is an excellent argument that there is a God, and that furthermore, He wants us to be happy.
Bullies either. He’d be glad to have
But age is always advancing and I’m fairly sure it’s up to no good.
But all the things Science had promised us hadn't come to pass. Disease was still a problem. Starvation was still a problem. Violence and crime and war were still problems. In spite of the advance of...
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