Oh, Lor' bless ou , mum,' Azazel answered quickly, 'I am laden with all sorts of gimcracks and gaudy gewgaws, fripperies, filigrees, and fooleries, not to mention frivolities, fancies, and fiddledeede...
I always say perseverance is nine-tenths of any art — not that it's much help to be nine-tenths an artist, of course.
Remember what I told you about time. When I was alive, I believed -- as you do -- that time was at least as real and solid as myself, and probably more so. I said 'one o'clock' as though I could see i...
It's a rare man who is taken for what he truly is, he said. There is much misjudgment in the world. Now, I knew you for a unicorn when I first saw you, and I know that I am your friend. Yet you take m...
And even the feral, near-wild Third Cat, whose true name he had never discovered, as one has to do with cats, trailed
I am what I am. I would tell you what you want to know if I could, for you have been kind to me. But I am a cat, and no cat anywhere ever gave anyone a straight answer.
I believe myself to be good, he thought, and so I can afford to titillate myself by considering evil, like a child frightening himself with horror stories. I am not a bad man. But I am not a wise one,...
Now I knew you for aunicorn when I first saw you, and I know that I am your friend. Yet you take me for a clown, or aclod, or a betrayer, and so must I be if you see me so. The magic on you is only ma...
It's like dinosaurs. We can put them back together perfectly, bone for bone, but we don't know what they smelled like, what kind of sounds they made, or how big they really looked standing in the gras...
Sparrows and cats will live in my shoe, Sooner than I will live with you. Fish will come walking out of the sea, Sooner than you will come back to me.
What use is wizardry if it cannot save a unicorn? He gripped the magician's shoulder hard, to keep from falling. Shchmendrick did not turn his head. With a touch of sad mockery in his voice, he said,...
She was no longer the careless color of sea foam, but rather the color of snow falling on a moonlit night.
I hate selkie stories. They're always about how you went up to the attic to look for a book, and you found a disgusting old coat and brought it downstairs between finger and thumb and said What's this...
I have been mortal, and some part of me is mortal yet. I am full of tears and hunger and the fear of death, though I cannot weep, and I want nothing, and I cannot die. I am not like the others now, fo...
She is a rarer creature than you dare to dream. She is a myth, a memory, a will-o’-the-wish.
Your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. I would break my body to pieces to call you once by your name.
I love you, more, I think, than I know, but our kind of love isn't a sword. It's a light. Not a fire. A small light, just bright enough to read love letters by and keep the animals at a growling dista...
I love you, Laura said hopelessly. I'd love you if you were afraid of everything in the world.
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...
There is an old saying that there is no country as unhappy as one that need heroes.(King Pelles the Sure)
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