It is not a comfortable passion.
It is a much more straightforward thing to be a dog, and a dog's love, once given, is not reconsidered.
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.
But the uproar this caused was nothing compared with the uproar when Katronia noticed [Rosie] had also cut her eyelashes. Various negotiations (including, finally, such desperate measures as supposing...
What you describe is how it happens to everyone: magic does slide through you, and disappear, and come back later looking like something else. And I'm sorry to tell you this, but where your magic live...
Those single-track military minds never think to ask their cleaning staff for help in giant lethal marauding creature matters.
They could at least part with love. It was like Tor to make the gesture; her father, for all his kindness, was too proud—or too much a king; and she was too proud, or too bitter, or too young.
The sheep, I guess demented with love, didn't object to this at all. Casimir somehow found time to pull up some grass for it, and it lay down and munched its grass and then chewed its cud like hanging...
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...
One day she told them, when you have retired, you will go to live with a family who will love you for your beauty and nothing more, and if you're very lucky there will be children, and the children wi...
Oh, why does compassion weaken us?'It doesn't, really ... Somewhere where it all balances out - don't the philosophers have a name for it, the perfect place, the place where the answers live? - if we...
Mathin had taught her patience, and she had known all of her life how to be stubborn.
If you wish, I shall go personally to your City and knock together the heads of Perlith and Galooney.
There was an idea much beloved and written about by this country’s philosophers that magic had to do with negotiating the balance between earth and air and water; which is to say that things with legs...
Tiny fists can hurt quite a lot when they hit you in the face.
There are things you don't want to know you can do
Then marry me. For I love you, and I do not believe there is anything so wrong with you. You are fair in my eyes and you lie fair on my heart.
The Beast turned back to me. I could look at him fairly steadily this time. After a moment he said harshly: I am very ugly, am I not?You are certainly, uh, very hairy, I said.You are being polite, he...
Tell me who you are. You need not tell me your name. Names have power, even human ones. Tell me where you live and what you do with your living.
Sometimes it is better not to know. Sometimes when you do know you just fold up.