I like that: a little pressure on the understood boundaries of yourself. Sounded like something out of a self-awareness class, probably with yoga. See what kind of a pretzel you can tie yourself into...
Everything was an adventure, at night, when you were where you shouldn't be, even if it was somwhere you could go perfectly well in daylight, and it was then only ordinary.
[the sheep] sidled up beside him and bumped him lovingly with its head. Val looked at it sadly. I am sorry, you ugly creature, he said. I have not used my magic in a long time, and I am very out of pr...
The magic in that country was so thick and tenacious that it settled over the land like chalk-dust and over floors and shelves like sticky plaster-dust. (House-cleaners in that country earned unusuall...
He will apologize, or I'll give him a lesson in swordplay he will not like at all.
He looked at her rather as a man looks at a problem that he would very much prefer to do without. She supposed it was a distinction of a sort to be a harassment to a king.
Balthazar was disappointed by all the walking, but he was accustomed to such disappointment.-Hellhound
She, too, spoke only when the queen or king addressed her first, but she looked searchingly at every supplicant, and her clear face said that she had opinions about everything she heard, and that it w...
Tiny fists can hurt quite a lot when they hit you in the face.
The Lone Ranger of vampires. Did that make me Tonto?
Little John: I would come too. He might want knocking in a stream to cool his anger.Much: I will come too, to fish him out again, and to reassure him that not all of us have this queer craving for hur...
It is not a comfortable passion.
I don't put up with being messed around, and I don't suffer fools gladly. The short version of that is that I'm a bitch. Trust me, I can provide character references.
I believe that the one thing that has come out of this -- extraordinary -- meeting this morning is an awareness that we have, perhaps, been careless about the critical relationship between human and p...
Galanna's gift, it was dryly said, was to be impossible to please.
The touch of evil poisons by the idea of it. Reject the idea, and you've rejected the evil
There was something very odd about the carpet this morning… More hedgehogs? Many more hedgehogs? Positively a lake of hedgehogs?
The chain round my neck gleamed in the daylight too. It looked more like gold this morning, but if I stirred it with a finger it had a queer iridescent quality not at all like real gold, not that I ha...
Stay a little while longer, and let everyone congratulate you - including the ones who clearly don't want to: in fact, especially the ones who clearly don't want to. You don't have to say anything but...
It is a much more straightforward thing to be a dog, and a dog's love, once given, is not reconsidered.