Everything written is at least in part fantasy.
What Mr. Bishop talked to Tomas about was living with them and controlling them, as if the ability to start fires with his mind was some kind of large dog Tomas had accidentally adopted and was now go...
And payment exacted for the crimes and weaknesses of a lifetime. Her hands shook, and tears prickled at the back of her eyes, but she couldn’t even cry. Something horrible was going to happen to her,...
You must be a real thing. I finally figured out this place has linear time. I wouldn't dream something as silly as linear time, so you've got to be real.
You are eccentric when you have enough money to not be considered crazy, Dominik
Too often have I seen human parents who were too young, too unstable, or otherwise unfit or unready for children produce child after doomed, mistreated child. I will have none of this for these, my gr...
Three things trust and cherish well-The horse on which you ride,The beast that guards and watches,And your shield-mate at your side.
Three things never anger or you'll not live for long;A wolf with cubs,A man with power, And a woman's sense of wrong.
This is the lesson history told me: when a religion gets so mired in bureaucracy that compassion takes second place to the law, and the law is iron-bound and iron-clad and has no room in it for except...
There was nothing we could do to stop whatever was going on, and there was no point in trying to imagine what was being done. I come from farm folk, Herald. We know when there’s nothing to be done you...
There are times when—when being alone is a hurt that’s worse than dying. When it’s easier to die than to be alone. Aren’t there?
Priests confine broad truths into narrow doctrines, because more rules mean that they have more power. Priests mistake their own prejudice for conscience and mistake what they personally fear for what...
Once the blinders are off, it's rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to.
Keep breathing. Exhale all the hurt and sorrow, inhale the untainted air.
It's just as easy to be lonely in a city as out in the wilderness. Easier, really. It's harder to get to know someone when you meet in a crowded place. People can freely ignore you in the city; they c...
Her attention wandered, and she began staring at the clouds, dreamily watching them drift over the city. When she was little, she wished she could fly up there and play, or even, when things were part...
Have I mentioned before that being responsible sucks?
Established religion is like established anything else. It's easy. It offers answers you can get prepackaged and predigested, right off the shelf, and the same for everybody. No thinking required, muc...
Don’t you see, Stef? It’s not that I’m serving Valdemar, it’s that I’m helping to preserve the kind of people who leave the world better than they found it, and trying to stop the ones who take instea...
Acting on what you want is something only children think is an adult prerogative.
