For wolves, as for dogs, life is a briefer thing than for men, if you measure it by counting days and how many turns of a season one sees. But in two years, a cub wolf does all a man does in a score....
For there is a very strange peace in giving over your judgment to someone else, to saying to them, You lead and I will follow, and I will trust entirely that you will not lead me to death or harm.
Fitz!’ Motley greeted me. ‘Hello, stupid!’ she added. The
Fault and guilt are as useless as apology once the deed is done. Once the action has been taken, all must endure what follows.
Even now. Even when I feel like most of me is dead, life breaks through sometimes. Food tastes good. Or something Per says makes me laugh. A hot cup of tea when I’m cold and wet. I’ve thought of endin...
Estamos aqui', respondi, e soltei uma gargalhada. Nunca pensara que a ira e o desespero pudessem fazer um homem rir.
Elliania wore her cloak of narwhals and bucks, and somehow a doublet that matched it perfectly had been created for the Prince. Dutiful’s simple coronet had been replaced with an ornate harvest crown,...
Each must be discouraged, but not completely denied all possibility. Men, she had discovered, were ruled by their imaginations in that regard.
Doing something stupid and reckless is not a better proof of your love than doing something measured and powerful.
Do you do this because you live such short lives? Tell yourselves wild tales of what might happen tomorrow, and feel all the feelings of events that will never happen? Perhaps to make up for the pasts...
Could any amount of love ever be worth the pain of losing it?
Coming up. A large tawny cat announced this to me at the same moment that he effortlessly elevated onto my lap. I stared at him in surprise.
Come, join your kin and lend strength to the weaker ones. Together, together, we journey, back to our beginnings and our endings. Gather, shore-born creatures of the sea, to return to the shores yet a...
Choose a place to take a stand. Not where they can corner you but not where they can surround you, either. Find a weapon, a stick, a rock, anything. If you cannot escape, make them pay as dearly as yo...
Cats do not enjoy being reminded of debts.Cats don not incur in debts.
But you don't know what will happen.''No. That is our curse. To know that something will happen, and only after it is over, to look back and say, Oh, that is what that meant. If only I'd known. It can...
But we are two old men, who have grown old together. Sometimes that is a greater closeness. We have come through time to your day and age. We can talk together, quietly, and share memories of a time t...
Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.
Blind funny little creatures they were, fumbling in the midst of a love they feared to acknowledge. To win, all they had to do was surrender but they could not perceive that. The beauty of what they c...
Bastard, she spat at him, and she thought he had moved closer. She swung at him, and then suddenly he was where he had been standing all along, the coward.