For a moment he thought she was about to hit him, which would have been bad, or even start crying, which would have been much, much worse.
Fat Charlie blew his nose. I never knew I had a brother, he said.I did, said Spider. I always meant to look you up, but I got distracted. You know how it is.Not really.Things came up.What kind of thin...
Fair enough, said Thor. What’s the price? Freya’s hand in marriage. He just wants her hand? asked Thor hopefully. She had two hands, after all, and might be persuaded to give up one of them without to...
Elegantly accomplished, said Nehemiah Trot. I shall compose an Ode. Would you like to stay and listen?
Each person who ever was or is or will be has a song. It isn't a song that anybody else wrote. It has its own melody, it has its own words. Very few people get to sing their song. Most of us fear that...
Does it work? Are they happier dead? Sometimes. Mostly, no. It’s like the people who believe they’ll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn’t work that way. Wherever you g...
Better I should call to people who aren’t there than that people who are there should miss us because I didn’t say anything.
Behind them were the lights of the market, the lanterns and candles and witch-lights and fairy glitter, like a dream of the night sky brought down to earth.
Been there, Remiel. Done that. Wore the T-Shirt, ate the burger, bought the original cast album, choreographed the legions of the damned and orchestrated the screaming.
And there are always people who find their lives have become so unsupportable they believe the best thing they could do would be to hasten their transition to another plane of existence.''They kill th...
And if you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise, and then just behave like they would.
America has invested her religion as well as her morality in sound income-paying securities. She has adopted the unassailable position of a nation blessed because it deserves to be blessed; and her so...
All the dinosaurs have gone off into the stars, leaving the world to mammals.
A table for TONIGHT should certainly have been booked years before-perhaps, it was implied, by Richard's parents. A table for TONIGHT was impossible: if the pope, the prime minister, and the president...
A flash of resentment. It's hard enough being alive, trying to survive in the world and find your place in it, to do the things you need to do to get by, without wondering if the thing you just did, w...
¿Te han hechizado en alguna ocasión, Maureen Quilling? ¿Te has mirado alguna vez al espejo preguntándote si esos ojos que te miran desde el otro lado son en verdad los tuyos? ¿O alguna vez has estado...
You play your cards so close to your chest, said Shadow, that I'm not even sure they're really cards at all.
You eternals have long lives, but short memories. The changing people have short lives, but we do not forget.
When we hold each other, in the darkness, it doesn't make the darkness go away. The bad things are still out there. The nightmares still walking. When we hold each other we feel not safe, but better....
What, asked Mr Croup, do you want?What, asked the Marquis de Carabas, a little more rhetorically, does anyone want?Dead things, suggested Mr Vandemar. Extra teeth.