At least I was true. My intellectual abilities gave me a release, and an excuse. I shunned company because I preferred books; and the dreams I confided to my father were of becoming a scholar in good...
And since I am the only one who sees you, why are you not then beautiful?
Your attitude is perhaps a little unnecessarily rigorous, suggested Jack.
Yes. Isn’t it … silly … how … upsetting … just thinking can be? It’s not silly at all. The insides of our own minds are the scariest things there are.
With the knowledge of her aloneness came a rush of self-declaration: I will not be nothing.
There were some things that took life and broke it, not merely into meaninglessness, but with active malice flung the pieces farther, into hell.
It had not been a very cheerful journey, not the least for the western excursion into Outlander territory, where a stubborn and pompous old man had refused to listen to the truth; but Corlath had expe...
In fact, she would have added the rider that she wasn't sure it could be done at all, getting to know someone at any succession of such parties, however prolonged.
If you try to breathe water, you will not turn into a fish, you will drown; but water is still good to drink.
I smiled. I understand now. But It doesn't matter and you needn't apologize. They have been very kind to me too. Even if we did differ a little about suitable dresses. He considered me a moment, a mis...
I said: He cannot be so bad if he loves roses so much.But he is a Beast, said Father helplessly.I saw that he was weakening, and wishing only to comfort him I said, Cannot a Beast be tamed?
Her fingers crawled upwards and touched the outer curve of her breast, and the fingers paused, quaking in fear; but after the moment, despite the panic trying to break out of its shadows and seize her...
But he hated to see his people people unhappy--because he was a good king, not because he was a nervous one
At first Lissar merely ran away; away from the yellow city, away from the prince whom she loved with both halves of her broken heart.
My friend, there are some things that I cannot tell you. Some I will tell you in time; some, others will tell you; some you may never know, or you may be the first to find the answers.
One of the biggest, and possibly the biggest, obstacle to becoming a writer... is learning to live with the fact that the wonderful story in your head is infinitely better, truer, more moving, more fa...
[Harry] had always suffered from a vague restlessness, a longing for adventure that she told herself severely was the result of reading too many novels when she was a small child.
Would it help perhaps if I told you that, had your father returned to me alone, I would have sent him on his way unharmed?You would! I said; it was half a shriek. You mean that I came here for nothing...
Why do you tell me... so much?Luthe considered her. I tell you... some you need to know, and some you have earned the right to know, and some it won't hurt you to know-- He stopped....Some things I te...
There's always a nest time,' said the king, 'unfortunately. You just don't know what it's going to be about.