A net of words, he said at last, is more powerful than a net of rope.
Those who fear the imagination condemn it: something childish, they say, something monsterish, misbegotten. Not all of us dream awake. But those of us who do have no choice.
The tutor's eyelids drooped; his thoughts drained out of his face like water seeping into earth.
The giant Grof was hit in one eye by a stone, and that eye turned inward so that it looked into his mind and he died of what he saw there.
Sybel, you went from me like a dream, so silently, so irrevocably—I could not bear it, I could not bear it—
Oh...if you were older...It is not a bad thing, itself, but it is a bad thing to be used by men, to have them choose what you must be, and what you must not be, to have little choice in your life. If...
I don't teach lies, but I do not teach all I know is true.
He had no place in the world, he said once, therefore he could go everywhere.
He felt the snow, downward groping of tree roots.
Even I could not guess what misgivings lay behind Perrin's clear eyes. Perhaps none; perhaps he trusted Laurel without question. Perhaps he was right. All I knew is what Laurel's hands said when she s...
The moon grew full, then slowly pared itself down until it shriveled into a ghostly boat riding above the roiling dark. Then it fell out of the sky. They climbed into it, left land behind, and floated...
Sorrow was like sleeping on stone,he (Brenden)decided. You had to settle all its bumps and sharp edges, come to terms against them,fit them around until they became bearable, and then carry your bed w...
Soon is such a long word.
Easier to understand the wind . . . Easier to walk on the surface of the frothing sea, than to remember the hunger to do it. Easier to remember knowledge than ignorance, experience than innocence. Eas...
Can you call a man?If I choose to, she said, surprised. I have never done it.Then if you ever have anything to fear from any man who comes here, will you call me? I will come. Whatever I am doing will...
As she moved swiftly and noiselessly through the vast palace cellar, odd noises weltered toward her. Voices and echoes of water rippled through the air as if, in some magic chamber, whales and dolphin...
His hands moved busily among the puppets, choosing, discarding, until they pounced finally on the moon with her crystal eyes and her hands shaped like stars.'I will be the moon,' Kyel said. 'You must...
When he held a candle across the threshold, the black swallowed the fire completely. When he tried to step across it, he felt nothing beneath his foot. Sometimes he heard rain, a bird-cry, wind soughi...
The man was hit in one eye by a stone, and that eye turned inward so that it looked into his mind, and he died of what he saw there
Something - a flick of color, the faint beat of the earth under my feet, or maybe my name in someone's thoughts - made me lift my eyes.