There is an old saying that there is no country as unhappy as one that need heroes.(King Pelles the Sure)
I would enter your sleep if I could, and guard you there, and slay the thing that hounds you, as I would if it had the courage to face me in fair daylight. But I cannot come in unless you dream of me....
There it is: that invisible boundary between conscious and not, between reality and fantasy, between here (whatever here is) and there (whatever there might be), between the seen and the seen’s true n...
She was no longer the careless color of sea foam, but rather the color of snow falling on a moonlit night.
The unicorn had all the world in her eyes, all the world I'm never going to see, but it doesn't matter, because now I have seen it, and it's beautiful, and I was in there too.
Marveling at his own boldness, he said softly, I would enter your sleep if I could, and guard you there, and slay the thing that hounds you, as I would if it had the courage to face me in fair dayligh...
Once you had your man, you let all your accomplishments go. You don’t sew or sing any more, you haven’t illuminated a manuscript in years—and
To the magician’s eyes the unicorn was the moon, cold and white and very old, lighting his way to safety, or to madness.
You deserve the services of a great wizard, he said to the unicorn, but I’m afraid you’ll have to be glad of the aid of a second-rate pickpocket.
No cat out of its first fur can ever be deceived by appearances. Unlike human beings, who enjoy them.
A rhinoceros is as ugly as a human being, and it too is going to die, but at least it never thinks that it is beautiful.
You ever want to see real witchcraft, you watch people protecting their comfort, their beliefs.
As to your first question, no cat out of its first fur can ever be deceived by appearances. Unlike human beings, who enjoy them.
Beyond the town, darker than dark, King Haggard's castle teetered like a lunatic on stilts...
But I'm always dreaming, even when I'm awake; it is never finished.
Death takes what man would keep, said the butterfly, and leaves what man would lose. Blow, wind, and crack your cheeks. I warm my hands before the fire of life and get four-way relief.
He ran, the unicorn said. You must never run from anything immortal. It attracts their attention. Her voice was gentle, and without pity. Never run, she said. Walk slowly, and pretend to be thinking o...
He was the color of blood, not the springing blood of the heart but the blood that stirs under an old wound that never really healed. A terrible light poured from him like sweat, and his roar started...
When your life is all taking, what need to learn courtship? Carcharos’s passion for Jassi Belnarak deepened and darkened with every sleepless night, but it did not keep him from understanding that nei...
They broaden our outlook… set us to looking inward…
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