Will you be all right? she asked me. It was not an empty question; she genuinely listened for my reply. In time, I told her, and for the first time, I admitted that was true. As disloyal as the though...
The King's tool. I see.' An oppression settle over me. My brief glimpse of blue skies arching over yellow roads and me travelling down them astride Sooty suddenly vanished. I thought of the hounds in...
Cats themselves may be very chatty, but they seem to resent it in anyone else. Cats like listeners.
It is the nature of human that we tend to pass our pain along. As if we could get rid of it by inflicting an equal hurt on someone else.
Strange, how being left out of a secret always feels like a betrayal of trust.
But in my heart, when I said my king, I meant Verity.
I am shocked to find that some people think a 2 star 'I liked it' rating is a bad rating. What? I liked it. I LIKED it! That means I read the whole thing, to the last page, in spite of my life raining...
When we are children, we believe that our elders know all and that even when we cannot understand the world, they can make sense of it. Even after we are grown, in moments of fear or sorrow, we still...
They regarded our passage not at all, and by the afternoon I felt no more significant than an ant. I had never thought to be disdained by a tree.
Here we do not believe in wasting time simply for the purpose of impressing others.
A woman of many talents. And intelligent, too. He'd probably have to kill her soon.
I rose from their midst feeling ashamed of how I had dismissed them; in so short a time Galen had brought me to think of them as ignorant sword wielders, men of brawn with no brain at all. I had lived...
And the world re-ordered itself around me. I spoke each word carefully. 'You are so stupid.
Every small, unselfish action nudges the world into a better path. An accumulation of small acts can change the world.
Too late to apologize. I have already forgiven you,
To recognize you are the source of your own loneliness is not a cure for it. But it is a step toward seeing that it is not inevitable, and that such a choice is not irrevocable.
Men walking a battlefield to search for wounded among the dead will still stop to cough, to blow their noses, still lift their eyes to watch a V of geese in flight. I have seen farmers continue their...
But change proves that you are still alive. Change often measures our tolerance for folk different from ourselves. Can we accept their languages, their customs, their garments, and their foods into ou...
«—No todos los hombres están destinados a hacer grandes cosas —le recordé.—¿Estás seguro, Traspié? ¿Estás seguro de eso? ¿De qué sirve vivir la vida si no ha de suponer ninguna diferencia para el deve...
Justice. There's a thing we shall ever thirst after, and ever be parched. No. We content ourselves with law.
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