The Stone Girl looked down at the ground for a long moment, then up at Renie, squinting her pockmark eyes as though against a fierce sun. Before I met you, she asked with a certain delicacy, did you s...
Oh, please, Barrick, sweet angry Barrick, don’t fall in love with Death.
Sometimes I talk about baseball just to annoy people who don’t understand it.
Piercing My Hearte there is A Golden Dagger; That is GodPiercing God's Hearte there is a Golden Needle; That is me
Oh, the Ocean is a question But the River is an answer With her rollicking and frolicking As fine as any dancer
Jongleur’s eyelids slid up and he turned to regard them. Renie wondered if her own sim face would register a guilty flush. If you have the energy to whisper like schoolchildren, he said, then you no d...
I’m pretty much a cat that way. Scratch my stomach, and I’ll purr at you, but I’ll want to gut you with my claws even more than if you’d ignored me.
If your enemy comes to speak bearing a sword, open your door to him and speak, but keep your own sword at hand. If he comes to you empty-handed, greet him the same way. But if he comes to you bearing...
Ho! We are being taunted by some sort of otherworldly fireflies. Someone fetch me my rifle!
Go down. It seemed obvious. You have to go down before you can come out - that's how these things always work.
Experience came easily enough, learning how not to suffer would have proved much more practical.
Every time you open your mouth, Clarence said, you just seem older and weirder.
Besides, there was always hope, wasn’t there?
As for monkeys, I would have five, and they would be named: See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, Do Pretty Much Whatever The Hell You Want, and Expensive Attorney.
Stupid people trying to manage me sends me into acute depression.
Welcome, Simon, to the world of those who are every day condemned to thinking and wondering and never ever knowing with certainness.
We were already fucked so many ways they could have dedicated an entire revision of the Kama Sutra just to us.
The wise man is not waiting for the realness of the world to prove itself to him. How can one be an authority before the experiencing of this realness? My master taught me—and to me it seems chash, me...
That is what I hate about ruling and royalty, Simon. It is living, breathing people with whom a prince plays the games of statecraft.
That is the problem with rumors, said Avin Brone. It is very hard to prove that things are not true—much more difficult than proving they are.