The process of giving is without limits.
Our lives are like these things I make. Turn 'em, build 'em, bake 'em in fire. That's what you've been, son. Baked and fired. But a pot don't have the right to choose whether he be for water, wine, or...
A thing named is a thing tamed.
I'd rather be a freak than a clone.
There were a few compensations to having corporeal Aspect. Food (jam tarts were my favourites); drink (mostly wine and mead); setting things on fire; sex (although I was still extremely confused by al...
The process of writing is a little like madness, a kind of possession not altogether benign.
Nat Parson says it's the devil's mark.Nat Parson's a gobshite.Maddy was torn between a natural feeling of sacrilege and a deep admiration of anyone who dared call a parson 'gobshite.
Clones fit in. Freaks stand out. Ask me which one I prefer.
And Odin should have known from the first that perfect Order does not bend; it simply stands until it breaks, which is why it rarely survives for any meaningful length of time.
I envy the table its scars, the scorch marks caused by the hot bread tins. I envy its calm sense of time, and I wish I could say: I did this five years ago. I made this mark, this ring caused by a wet...
I could do with a bit more excess. From now on I'm going to be immoderate--and volatile--I shall enjoy loud music and lurid poetry. I shall be rampant.
I carried recipes in my head like maps.
Change isn't always comfortable, but it is a fact of life.
Better a king in the gutter,' he said, 'than a slave in an emperor's place
A spider brings good luck before midnight and bad luck after.
Why can no one here think of anything but chocolates?
There was a quote he could not quite remember, something about the past being an island surrounded by time. He had missed the last boat to the island.
Their love was something which coloured the air between them like sunlight.
Sometimes survival is the worst alternative there is
Some things can be both real and imaginary at the same time, . . . some lies can be true, . . . broken faith may be restored.