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.
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...
We may not like it, but we need human friends, because we have human enemies whether we will or nay.
Yes, I am letting my own experience color my answer, which is what experience is for....
What was she to say? The prodigal has returned? The mutineer wishes to be reinstated? The subordinate, having gone to a great deal of trouble to prove her commander wrong, has come back and promises t...
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,...
Those single-track military minds never think to ask their cleaning staff for help in giant lethal marauding creature matters.
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 Pavilion did not burn by lightening, she said.He hesitated again. It holds the memory of fire, he said at last. Lightening is young and strong and thoughtless, but it could also wish to visit the...
So, what do you do when you know you have two days to live? Eat an entire Bitter Chocolate Death cake all by myself. Reread my favorite novel. Buy eight dozen roses from the best florist in town--the...
Slowly, painfully, I let go. It was like prying my own fingers off the edge of the cliff. And that hurt too-particularly the falling part, and not being sure what was at the bottom.But I did know. wa...
She was ashamed. She would not--she would not--be frightened of him: he was what he was, and he had made a promise he would keep.
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...
I said with perfect honesty, I have no intention of trying to take these suckers out by myself, no.
I have a mastery of the art of worrying that is a burden to me if I may not use it. --Robin
HIs riders knew most of this, even if they did not see it with the dire clarity Corlath was forced to....
Cigars should be like onions, she said, unfastening the catch and pushing back the pane. Either the whole company does, or the whole company does not.
But it is not, as we say when we are being diplomatic, a fruitful source of inquiry.
But I'm going to try to tell the truth. Except for the parts I'm leaving out, because there's still stuff I'm just not going to tell you. Get used to it.