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...
There's always a nest time,' said the king, 'unfortunately. You just don't know what it's going to be about.
There was, too, a reality to her new life that her old life had lacked, and she realized with a shock that she had never truly loved or hated, for she had never seen the world she had been used to liv...
There was a certain bitter humor to lying awake wishing for something one cannot have, after lying awake not so long ago wishing for the opposite thing that one had just lost. Not a very useful sort o...
She caught her father one day at breakfast, between ministers with tactical problems and councillors with strategic ones. His face lit up when he saw her, and she made an embarrassed mental note to se...
Narknon put a paw on Harry's chest and began licking her face; a hunting-cat's tongue is much harsher than a housecat's. Harry thought her skin would crumble and peel off, but she didn't have the stre...
Mathin said: It is best to take your opponent's sash. The kysin mark each blow dealt, but to cut off the other rider's sash is best. This you will do.Oh, said Harry.You may, if you wish, unhorse him f...
It wasn't so long ago when all the so-called scientists said that humans were intelligent and that animals weren't, humans were the solitary unchallenged masters of the globe and probably the universe...
It is that I cannot see what I am doing or why, and it is unsettling always to live only in the moment as it passes. Oh, I know one never sees ahead or behind. But I see even less. It is like being bl...
It is a much more straightforward thing to be a dog, and a dog's love, once given, is not reconsidered; it just is, like sunlight or mountains. It is for human beings to see the shadows behind the lig...
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...
And what was I panicking about anyway? Being left alone with myself? I'd rather have a vampire around?Well. Yes.
And if my choice is to sit graciously in my best robes and accept the inevitable or to bail a sea with a bucket, give me the bucket.
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.
[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.
Your attitude is perhaps a little unnecessarily rigorous, suggested Jack.
With the knowledge of her aloneness came a rush of self-declaration: I will not be nothing.