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.
The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans.
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...
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,"...
You're drunk as four skunks, you idiot.
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...
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...
And as I watched the dancers moving unheeded around him, an idea formed in my mind, a reckless, useless, stupid idea, but one that promised such fun I could almost hear Bran’s laughter., I realized gr...
We stepped into the very inn in which we’d had our initial conversation; we passed the little room I had stood outside of, and I shuddered. Now we had a bigger one, but I was too tired to notice much...
The effect of knowing one looks one’s best is enormously bracing.