Sometimes when she was alone, and she knew she was alone, she permitted her mind to play in a garden, and she smiled.
Rama continued: I do not know whether there are men born outside humanity, or whether some men are so human as to make others seem unreal. Perhaps a godling lives on earth now and then. Joseph has str...
Pilon complained, It is not a good story. There are too many meanings and too many lessons in it. Some of those lessons are opposite. There is not a story to take into your head. It proves nothing.I l...
Perhaps it is so with everyone, that he looks for weakness in the strong to find promise of strength in his weakness.
Only God sees the sparrow fall, but even God doesn't do anything about it.
Once a journey is designed, equipped, and put in process, a new factor enters and takes over. A trip, a safari, an exploration, is an entity, different from all other journeys. It has personality, tem...
Once Charley fell in love with a dachshund, a romance racially unsuitable, physically ridiculous, and mechanically impossible. But all these problems Charley ignored. He loved deeply and tried dogfull...
Nobody has the right to remove any single experience from another. Life and death are promised. We have a right to pain.
Names are a great mystery. I've never known whether the name is molded by the child or the child changed to fit the name. But you can be sure of this- whenever a human has a nickname it is a proof tha...
Misfortune is a fact of nature acceptable to women, especially when it falls on other women.
Maybe-- maybe love makes you suspicious and doubting. Is it true that when you love a woman you are never sure-- never sure of her because you aren't sure of yourself?
Maybe there ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue, they's just what people does. Some things folks do is nice and some ain't so nice, and that's all any man's got a right to say.
Lanser said, There are no peaceful people, when will you learn it? There are no friendly people, can't you understand that?
I’ve tried to figure it out. When we were children we lived in a story that we made up. But when I grew up the story wasn’t enough. I had to have something else, because the story wasn’t true anymore....
It is easy to find a logical and virtuous reason for not doing what you don’t want to do.
It is a child speaking, said Merlin, not a king and not a knight, but a hurt and angry child, or you would know, my lord, that there is more to a king than a crown, and far more to a knight than a swo...
It became his habit to creep out of bed even before his mother was awake, to slip into his clothes and to go quietly down to the barn to see Gabilan. In the grey quiet mornings when the land and the b...
In town in a whorehouse. That’s where your money’s goin’. Jesus, I seen it happen too many times. I seen too many guys with land in their head. They never get none under their hand.
In the evening a strange thing happened: the twenty families became one family, the Children were the children of all. The loss of home became one loss, and the golden time in the West was one dream....
In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms