The spaciousness of it astounds me; this is the kind of country you dream of running away to when you are very young and innocently hungry, before you learn that all land is owned by somebody, that yo...
The stars were going out now, one by one, dropping like pennies behind the television aerials and the skylights and the washing strung between the chimneys. The sky was still dark - a sated, navy-blue...
The torches went out, and in the darkness, he placed his lips to my ear. I believe you because I choose to; not because I do.
Unicorns know naught of shame, or need, or doubt, or debt;But mortals, as you may have noticed, take what they can get.
And even the feral, near-wild Third Cat, whose true name he had never discovered, as one has to do with cats, trailed
Който има избор, не избира.Избира онзи, който няма.Всичко, що обичаме,умира - отминалото не остава.
Song of elli (old age)What is plucked will grow again,What is slain lives on,What is stolen will remainWhat is gone is gone...What is sea-born dies on land,Soft is trod upon.What is given burns the ha...
The woman I loved died because I did not love her enough - what greater sin is there than that?(Uncle Chaim and Aunt Fifke and the Angel)
Then what is magic for? Prince Lír demanded wildly. What use is wizardry if it cannot save a unicorn? He gripped the magician's shoulder hard, to keep from falling.Schmedrick did not turn his head. Wi...
There are honest people in the world, but only because the devil considers their asking prices ridiculous.
There are people,' he said, 'who give, and there are people who take. There are people who create, people who destroy, and people who don't do anything and drive the other two kinds crazy. It's born i...
There is only one spot in me that is as warm and placid as those cattle, and that is the part that knows quite surely that I will always be cold, that there will always be a wind hunting through me, a...
…but to the unicorn’s eyes Molly was becoming a softer country, full of pools and caves, where old flowers came burning out of the ground. Under the dirt and indifference, she appeared only thirty-sev...
There's more meaning than magic to this
They broaden our outlook… set us to looking inward…
They may be apart sometimes, they may come and go as they choose--what can love be like when you live forever?--but they wait for each other, they find each other, they are together always!
This body is dying. I can feel it rotting all around me. How can anything that is going to die be real? How can it be truly beautiful?
This body is dying. I can feel it rotting all around me.
This world, that world, doesn't matter. You never make people to see what you see, hear, feel what you feel. Notes don't do it, words don't do it, paints, bronze, marble, nothing. All you can do, you...
Traditionally, people are always supposed to feel empty, devastated, when a god leaves them. Nobody seems to wonder how the god might feel. Leaving the only people who almost understood.
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