When inadequate men assumed huge burdens, the outcome could only serve Despite.
The speed felt tremendous. And the bottom of the ravine was treacherous. She ought to control her mount somehow - slow it; steer it to safer footing. Of course. And while she was at it, she ought to d...
I was sitting at the bar of the Hegira that night when Ginny came in. The barkeep, an ancient sad-eyed patriarch named Jose, had just poured me another drink, and I was having one of those rare moment...
Are you a storyteller, Thomas Covenant?Absently he replied, I was, once.And you gave it up? Ah, that is as sad a tale in three words as any you might have told me. But a life without a tale is like a...
Ah, deserve, sighed Kindwind. The notion of deserved and undeserved is a fancy. Knowing both life and death, we endeavor to impose worth and meaning upon our deeds, and thereby to comfort our fear of...
Their flat, unreadable faces showed no signs of youth or age, as if their relationship with time was somehow ambivalent; and
I have no special virtue to make me resent him. One must have strength in order to judge the weakness of others. I am not so mighty. This
What good are friends who treat you just like your enemies do?
The story of Terisa and Geraden began very much like a fable. She was a princess in a high tower. He was a hero come to rescue her. She was the only daughter of wealth and power. He was the seventh so...
Melenkurion abatha! Binas mill Bana Nihoram khabaal! Melenkurion abatha! Abatha Nimoram!
For a moment after his voice faltered and fell, the sanctuary was silent, and the voice throbbed like weeping, as if in his words the people recognized themselves, recognized the failure he described...
She could not distinguish between contrition and self-abasement; between acknowledgment and blame.
We didn't make the world. All we have to do is live in it.
On the whole, she reflected with a loopy clarity while pain clanged back and forth in her head and the guard held her upright, she liked being rescued. It was better than not being rescued. Definitely...
In perfect unison, all the townspeople vomited gouts of blood onto the pavement.
Dark trees leaped across his vision like aghast dancers in the nacreous light.
Covenant did not reply at once. He trembled also, and hand to clench himself before he could say without a tremor, Why? Why do you trust me?The Hirebrand's eyes gleamed as if he were on the verge of t...
It said that the mission’s copying costs were too high, so would she please type two hundred fifty copies of the attached letter in addition to her other duties.
I can’t spend my whole life just sitting on my hands and wondering when I’m going to fade. I can’t. That’s worse than doing something wrong. Isn’t it?
But then a bubbling tenor voice said kindly, Do not fear. It is a dream. The reassurance spread over him like a blanket. But he could not feel it with his hands, and the ambulance kept on moving. Need...