From any rational point of view I am absurd; but there are no longer any rational points of view.
For the heart was both key and lock, and he who could master the hearts of men and learn their secrets was well on the way to mastering the Fates and controlling the thread of his own destiny.
Flowers, for instance, because where would we be without them?
Extreme good, extreme evil: the abilities required are similar.
Everybody knew. Nobody admitted to knowing. If other people began to discuss it, you tuned them out, because what they were saying was both so obvious and so unthinkable.
Each thing is valid and really there. It is through a field of such valid objects that I must pick my way, every day and in every way. I put a lot of effort into making such distinctions. I need to ma...
Dream steals from its lair towards its prey.
Don't misunderstand me. I am not scoffing at goodness, which is far more difficult to explain than evil, and far more complicated. But sometimes it's hard to put up with.
Doing their job, said Cora. Keeping us safe.Nothing safer than dead, said Rita, angrily.
Do you hunger for me, do you burn for me
Disguise is easier when you’re young.
Dear Diplodicus; dear Pterosaur; dear Trilobite; dear Mastodon, dear Dodo, dear Great Auk, dear Passenger Pigeon, dear Panda, dear Whooping Crane; and all you countless others who have played in this...
Congratulations on a good outcome! We’ve all been rooting for you. Charmaine wonders who’s been doing the rooting, because she hasn’t noticed anyone. But like so many things around here, maybe the roo...
By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, believe you're there, I believe you into being. Because I'm telling you this story I will your existence. I tell, therefore you are. So I...
But this is wrong, nobody dies from lack of sex. It’s lack of love we die from. There’s
But I envy the Commander's Wife her knitting. It's good to have small goals that can be easily attained.
Being socially retarded is like being mentally retarded, it arouses in others disgust and pity and the desire to torment and reform.
Behind the studied blankness of her gaze, revolt must have been simmering. I recognized that surliness, that stubbornness, that captive-princess indignation, which must be kept hidden until enough wea...
Attack, voraciouseating, and flight:it’s a sound routinefor staying alive on edges.
At the outset Verna had not intended to kill anyone.