Oh,' she said, too bone-weary to pretend: 'I would far rather that I love you as I saw yesterday I do than that I had gone on worshiping you as I did not long since.' And she turned away hastily, and...
My sheets had never been so clean as they had in the past few months. I hardly got them on again before something else happened and I was feverishly ripping them off and stuffing them in the wash with...
Little John, watching her standing next to her brother, half-glowering in the old Cecil manner and half-comforted by Robin's words, saw for a moment what it had been like for her as Will's litter sist...
It's kind of interesting you're driving a car big enough for a wolfhound and a mastiff to get in the back of today, I said.And a greyhound, a dark brown bear, and a brindle utility vehicle, said Jill....
I said with perfect honesty, I have no intention of trying to take these suckers out by myself, no.
I loved every one of these people. And I couldn’t take another minute of their company.
I feel like a potato that's recently been mashed,she said.
HIs riders knew most of this, even if they did not see it with the dire clarity Corlath was forced to....
Cornbread?He brightened immediately. I was as bad as Paulie, really, despite how long I'd been doing this. Someone wants to eat my food, they're automatically my friend. Someone who doesn't want to ea...
There remained a strange formality between them, and her pleasure in his presence felt too much like missing him had felt during the last week.
Including Rilly, who was beside herself with excitement, and her mother, who was beside herself with Rilly--
The great thing about fantasy is that you can drag dreams and longings and hopes and fears and strivings out of your subconscious and call them 'magic' or 'dragons' or 'faeries' and get to know them b...
The story is always better than your ability to write it.
What was new was the fact that, despite my heart doing its fight-or-flight, help-we're-prey-and-HEY-STUPID-THAT'S-A-VAMPIRE number, I was glad to see him. Ridiculous but true. Scary but true.
We are all only mortal, said the Master, even more slowly. We do only what we can do. All the Elemental priests have certain teachings in common: one of them is that everyone, every human, every bird,...
Tsornin's nostrils showed red, but his ears were as alert as ever, and occasionally he would rub his nose gently against the nape of her neck, just in case she was momentarily not thinking about him.
This place felt like home; not her home perhaps, but someone's home, accustomed to shelter and keep and befriend its master.
There had been certain romantic interludes in the past that had included galloping across the desert at night; but he had never abducted any woman whose enthusiastic support for such a plan had not be...
The rose shadows said that they loved the sun, but that they also loved the dark, where their roots grew through the lightless mystery of the earth. The roses said: You do not have to choose.
The lessons she'd been forced to learn were dry spare things, the facts without the sense of them, given in the simplest of language, as if words might disguise the truth or (worse) bring it to life.