Farrell had seen pure white drunkenness before, but not often enough to recognize it at sight. He knew the thing itself, however--the freight train rattling and lurching comically from hilarity to slo...
He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either: he found them a place to live, a green alternative to each day's mad...
I have my power at last, but the world is still too heavy for me to move, though my friend Lír might think otherwise.
I never looked at you without seeing the sweetness of the way the world goes together, or without sorrow for its spoiling.
Real magic can never be made by offering up someone else’s liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back. The true witches know that. A
She did not look anything like a horned horse, as unicorns are often pictured, being smaller and cloven-hoofed, and possessing that oldest, wildest grace that horses have never had, that deer have onl...
She loved him too. That's why she let him go.
So you're an angel, fine, that's terrific. Now give me back my shadows. (Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel)
That is most of it, being a wizard—seeing and listening.
The impulse is being called reactionary now, but lovers of Middle-earth want to go there. I would myself, like a shot. For in the end it is Middle-earth and its dwellers that we love, not Tolkien’s co...
The ludicrousness of admonishing an immortal creature to be careful was a little more than his sense of the absurd could tolerate.
The most professional curse ever snarled or croaked or thundered can have no effect on a pure heart.
È raro che un uomo sia preso per quello che è veramente – disse. – Nel mondo spesso si commettono sbagli di valutazione. Ora, io ti ho riconosciuto come unicorno già quando ti ho visto la prima volta,...
The Cat: When the wine drinks itself, when the skull speaks, when the clock strikes the right time, only then will you find the tunnel that leads to the Red Bull. There be a trick to it, of course.
Don't be afraid. Don't be afraid of anything. Whatever you have been, you are mine now. I can hold you.
I know how to live here, I know how everything smells, and tastes, and is. What could I ever search for in the world, except this again?
Ma Molly lo spinse da parte e andò verso l'unicorno, sgridandola come se fosse una mucca da latte smarrita. – Dove sei stata? –. Davanti al suo candore e al corno rilucente, Molly rimpicciolì come un...
Marriage isn't like football, like bocce. One isn't good at it, nobody has a special gift. You stumble along, and if there is enough love-- she smiled at him-- you learn.
She leaned forward and put her arms around me. Sometimes it used to make me prickly when she did that, and I'd turn into a bag of knees and elbows. . .
The dead, he had said once, need nothing from the living, and the living can give nothing to the dead. At twenty-two, it had sounded precocious; at thirty-four, it sounded mature, and this pleased Mic...
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