Even the most unpleasant inhabitants of the Edwin Meese Gardens housing project had never tried to shove a basilisk into Ramsey’s codpiece.
Do you listen to the wolves, Seoman? Jiriki asked. It’s hard n-not to. They sing such fierce songs. The Sitha shook his head. They are like your mortal kind. They sing of where they have been, and wha...
But that is enough of such worrying. The river is waiting, and our hearts must be light, so we can faster travel.
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.
And you, a king’s daughter, who willingly gave herself to me—who brought me to her bed? Are you so high and pure? She
Ah, yes. ‘‘Errors of caution are more likely to be considered at leisure than errors of boldness – but less likely to be considered after a victory.’’ In other words, if you are too careful, you are m...
A man whose wisdom is true does not sit in waiting for the world to come at him piece by piece for proving its existence!
A book, you see, is the only kind of trap that keeps its captive—which is knowledge—alive forever.
You're pretty hard-boiled, Tinker Bell.-Call me that name again and you'll be wondering how your bollocks wound up lodged in your windpipe--from below. Just because we don't get to your side of things...
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?
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...
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.
Because love does not do sums, but instead make choices, and then gives its all.
As Simon sat looking at the words his newfound resolve was tested; he felt a wave wash through him, a staggering ocean breaker of remorse and fear, and a feeling of things that, though unseen, were no...
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...
And what about lovers, like in the stories? Do they get married? Oh, yes. And sometimes they stay in love, but sometimes they don’t. I would say it’s one of the more untrustworthy reasons for marriage...
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