A horse blanket, Mel?I remembered what I was wearing. 'It tore in half when Hrani tried washing it. She was going to mend it. This piece was too small for a horse, but it was just right for me.'Bran l...
If your opponent is better armed and has longer reach, then surprise is your only ally. And then you'd better hope he's half asleep.
Who in the universe halts when the enemy tells them to?
Are they trained to treat everyone as a servant?''Probably. That doesn't make you into one,
What if feeling good only comes after you destroy someone you hate?''That's not good, that's triumph,
What's it really like to always be the prettiest person in a room? Dos it mean you're always acting as if in a play, because no one stops looking at you?''Life is a play, isn't it?
Memory warps time, as it does the sights and sounds and smells of reality; for what shapes it is emotion, which can twist what seems clear, just as the surface of a pond seems to bend the stick thrust...
Finally someone takes me seriously enough to ask for my word of honor, and it’s a villain.
Except. What is normal at any given time? We change just as the seasons change, and each spring brings new growth. So nothing is ever quite the same.
Montrose tasted the coffee. No bitterness, a blend of several beans--some of which had been grown precisely the same way for over a thousand years--and just the right temperature. If pressed, he could...
The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans.
You're drunk as four skunks, you idiot.
If more people recognized the difference between friendship and mere attraction, or how love must partake of both to prosper, I expect there'd be more happy people." "And a lot fewer poems and plays,"...
But I will never ask anyone from our village-from any village in Tlanth-to risk his or her life unless I'm willing to myself.
Choose the duty that you can most effectively execute: that is, finally, all we can do in life.
When I turned thirteen and took a typing class, with typical early teen enthusiasm and total lack of critical ability, I started sending my stuff to publishers once I'd babysat long enough to earn the...
Brace up. We’re not about to embark on a duel to the death over the dishes.
Though few had seen him go, his leaving seemed to constitute a kind of subtle signal, for slowly, as white wore on, my guests slipped away, many of them in pairs. Elenet left with the Orbanith family,...
I crossed the garden, staying near the hedgerow borders until the pathway debouched onto one of the lovely brick streets. A quick glance down the street revealed scarcely any traffic--but way up at th...
How about writing to your brother? Oria asked at last.Bran is good, and kind, and as honest as the stars are old, I said, but the more I read, the more I realize that he has no political sense at all....