You show her respect. That is a good thing, he said. Too often it is that men think those who serve are doing it from inferiorness or weakness.
What is it you want, fairy woman? he asked at last. I have dead men to burn and a siege to finish. Ayaminu
Theo knew enough about women and their clothes to recognize she was trying to strike an appropriate balance between... what? Between liking him and hating him? Between wanting to look good and not wan...
Something gurgled in his throat. It took a moment before he realized it was a scream bottled in his innards, a blast of misery trying to force its way out.
Since your father has escaped my justice, it is you who must hear my words. Words. You keep saying... Because that was the gift your father gave to me. And the curse that ruined me as well, changed my...
Order. I must find some order. If the universe has none, or at least none we can discern, well, then it is our job to give it some. I have always believed that.
It was frighteningly close to what he believed of his father at the worst moments - that he really was the kind of man who would send a letter signed Sincerely, Cpl. Peter Vilmos to someone he'd seen...
I guess you don’t want to leave copies of Genocide Illustrated out for the UPS guy to see.)
Even the king's Erkynguard might have wished to be elsewhere, rather than here on this killing ground where duty brought them and loyalty prisoned them. Only the mercenaries were here by choice. To Si...
But remember this lesson, Simon, one fit for kings... or the sons of kings. Nothing is without cost. There is a price to all power, and it is not always obvious.
Bhojujik mo qunquc,’ as my people say. Binabik made an expansive gesture around the clearing. ‘—If the bears do not eat you, it is home.
Because love does not do sums, but instead make choices, and then gives its all.
As I continued through the streets, through the smoke of the burnings and the rubble of the fires and explosions--for during the chaos of the quarantine parts of the city had become something like war...
ATTORNEY: When you sign one of our contracts, it says very clearly on page one hundred and seventeen that all crimes that occur onsite must be immediately and accurately reported to the company.
A book, you see, is the only kind of trap that keeps its captive—which is knowledge—alive forever.
Xabbu was taught by his people to absorb everything the world gives him and then, after sifting out the most important details, to act on them. But he is also clever and supremely flexible. Faced with...
No other bosses but mine and my opponents’ can have your soul jerked out of your body and sent to the deepest fiery pits to suffer for eternity. Unless you work for Walmart.
Why were men so caught up with their honor, their solemn word, their promises?Half the time the promises were never asked of them in the first place.And yet the wars that were fought over such things,...
We call darkness our friend, but when the elders tell us stories of the Garden, they talk of the holy, unending light that was there. How did shadows become our only dwelling?
She floated in the midst of a living shadow. There was nothing but herself, surrounded by an unimaginable blackness. She could not think, not properly. She could only wait, while time or perhaps some...