And none at all has ridden at the king's side since Aerinha, goddess of honor and flame, first taught men to forge their blades. You'd think Aerinha would have had better sense.
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.
There's always a nest time,' said the king, 'unfortunately. You just don't know what it's going to be about.
There were some things that took life and broke it, not merely into meaninglessness, but with active malice flung the pieces farther, into hell.
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...
Say yes, babe, or I'll spill you off over the Wall next time - got it?
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...
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...
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
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.
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...
Breaking tradition always comes with a noise like mountains falling.
Your attitude is perhaps a little unnecessarily rigorous, suggested Jack.
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...
With the knowledge of her aloneness came a rush of self-declaration: I will not be nothing.