Have any sheep been seen walking out of the Library with seagoing adventurers clinging to their wool?
Afterwards, sometimes she dared to remember being in his arms. How, after only clumsy couplings with others, she and this man had straightaway come together as a perfect fit. How they moved together,...
Once you permit individuals to maneuver in secret, unasked, and for their own purposes, there is chaos.
I despise women who rely on men entirely for their own existence.
Falco readers are, I must say, the most strikingly nice group of people.
They were not beggars; well, not in the usual sense. They were Christians, who wanted not just my nephew's money but their souls.
I like my women in a few wisps of drapery: then I can hope for a chance to remove the wisps.
Curiosity is a terrible inducement.
You could tell those two had been married by the way that she ignored him.
Aprender una lengua extraña: asimilas nociones de gramática, vocabulario básico y un acento espantoso que apenas sirve para que te entiendan. Te esfuerzas durante años y de repente, sin saber por qué,...
It is possible to take against someone, then continue to loathe them out of pure prejudice.
Even men who use fear as their weapon can themselves be threatened. We all have something we don’t want to lose.
Sometimes information you barely noticed consciously comes back to you of its own accord.
Free time, time to do whatever you liked, or to do absolutely nothing, alone or in company you valued: of all the luxuries in the Empire, perhaps this was the greatest.
By this evening, the mad murderer would have a golden alabastron containing a deadly potion made by Cappadocian dwarfs from a recipe handed down through thirty generations, to which there was no antid...
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Popular men who laugh at your jokes pose a threat which blatant villains can never command.
We managed to make a good night of it, in the desperate way people do when the choice is between dogged survival or sliding under the morass.
Premature action alerts the opposition.
I like my women in a few wisps of drapery: then I can hope for a chance to remove the wisps. If they start out with nothing I tend to get depressed because either they have just stripped off for someo...