The Dust pouring down from the stars had found a living home again, and these children-no-longer-children, saturated with love, were the cause of it all.
Stories don’t teach us to be good; it isn’t as simple as that. They show us what it feels like to be good, or to be bad. They show us people like ourselves doing right things and wrong things, acting...
She was learning that if she pretended to be weak and frightened, and dabbed at her eyes with a lacy handkerchief, she could turn aside all manner of pressing questions.
She did not move. Nor did she scream or faint; her only actions were to draw back the hem of her dress from where it brushed the shiny dome of his skull and to breathe deeply, several times, with her...
Ma tu pensa ad Adamo ed Eva come una specie di numero immaginario, come la radice quadrata di meno uno; non potrai mai vedere nessuna prova concreta della sua esistenza, ma se la includi nelle tue equ...
Life is hard, Mr. Scoresby, but we cling to it all the same. And this journey we’re on? Is that folly or wisdom? The greatest wisdom I know.
If there is a war to be fought, we don’t consider cost one of the factors in deciding whether or not to fight.
I wish I’d seen, as I was writing it, that it would be much more effective if he motivation were love; that he does these terrible things out of sheer compassion. He’s killing people in order to save...
I found folly everywhere, but there were grains of wisdom in every stream of it. No doubt there was much more wisdom that I failed to recognize. Life is hard, Mr. Scoresby, but we cling to it all the...
Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it,
We measure the value of a civilized society by the number of Libraries it opens, not the number it closes down.
I think it's perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it, but I don't know everything, and there may well be a God somewhere, hiding away. Actually, if he is...
If I have to die to do what’s proper, then I will, and be happy while I do.
And she saw a bed of lamb’s lettuce, or rapunzel.
When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. At the moment all...choices existed at once. But to keep them in existence me...
When he rescued me, he was young and strong and full of pride and beauty. I loved him at once. I would have changed my nature, I would have forsaken the star-tingle and the music of the Aurora; I woul...
We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence.
We all show false faces to the world, and a good thing too, for a hundred reasons. We should be consistent with our friends and lovers, so as not to be unkind. But if in your heart you are not kind, i...
There’s plenty of folk as’d like to have a lion as a dæmon and they end up with a poodle. And till they learn to be satisfied with what they are, they’re going to be fretful about it. Waste of feeling...
There he dwelt, a prisoner acting like a king.