Three things know a secret-First; the lady in a dream,The dog that barks no warning,And a maid that does not scream.
They didn’t have to be true to be good.
These doyennes of society were no different at bottom than the leading dames among the gossips of her own village. Within that little society, their word was law, and the law was respectability.
These people are civilians, Moira. Look at them. They didn’t try to hurt Holcomb’s workers and they’re certainly no threat to the Cabal. I smiled and waved my right hand, palm out. Come on. You know t...
There is no one true way. This is how we live in peace with each other. This is how we live in peace with those outside our borders who do not seek to impose their ways on us. And this is the only way...
The reasons for bearing young should simply be love and respect for the incipient child, and for the world they will be born into. If it took more effort to produce a child than the exercise of a mome...
Pretend long enough that you belong, and eventually even you will believe it. - Gallen
Platitudes might satisfy for a short time, father—but soon or late, the people will realize they are being fed form without substance. What I tell them must be the truth, and I must believe it, and I...
One day,' Orest said, looking at him comically, 'you will say something that is less than practical and sensible, something that is driven by no forethought and nothing but passion, and I will probabl...
Love now–a good, solid love is something infinitely rarer and more difficult to maintain, because you don’t know everything your partner is feeling. Love takes work. Love means being able to apologize...
I’ll ‘ave ’er there well afore, ma‘am, the cabby said, impressed by the guinea, if by nothing else. He chirruped to his horse, who trotted off without needing a slap of the reins or a touch of the whi...
He’d parted reluctantly from Amily, thinking again with envy of Lena and Bear. One thing that they hadn’t been forced to deal with during their courtship was other people . . . keeping an eye on them....
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...
Eric could teach Hosea the way to call his magic. He could teach him that Eric’s was the only right way, teach Hosea to do only as Eric had done and could do, and no more. But that was not what it mea...
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...
Clarice concentrated on taking deep breaths. Men did not burst into tears, no matter how terrible the tragedy.
Better, I thought, not to touch at all than to touch and bring hurt upon myself and others. Better to do nothing than to make a move and have it be the wrong one. But even deciding to not touch or to...
And when it comes down to cases, everything written is at least in part a fantasy. Except maybe for the national budget. That’s horror.
A quaint conceit, don't you think?
:They spend a quarter of their lives writing things down, a quarter finding what other people have written down, a quarter hiding what was written down, and a quarter making sure if it should have bee...