Little children are stoical. They cry over bumps, but they take the big things as they come, they don't whine like so many adults.
Later, when Ged thought back upon that night, he knew that had none touched him when he lay thus spirit-lost, had none called him back in some way, he might have been lost for good. It was only the du...
Justice is in the hands of the gods, an old poet wrote, mortal hands hold only mercy and the sword.
It is not altogether a bad thing to have criminal ancestors. An arsonist grandfather may bequeath one a nose for smelling smoke.
In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every world of it.
If you play against your own side you’ll lose the whole game.
If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion... But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion.
I write science fiction because that is what publishers call my books. Left to myself, I should call them novels.
I don't know. We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?
I am without a face among men. I am not seen. I speak and am not heard. I come and am not welcomed. There is no place by the fire for me, nor food on the table for me, nor a bed made for me to lie in....
Hemos llegado, desde una gran distancia el uno al otro. Siempre lo hemos hecho. A través de grandes distancias, a través de años, a través de abismos de casualidad. Porque él viene de tan lejos, nada...
He saw time turn back upon itself, a river flowing upward to the spring. He held the contemporaneity of two moments in his left and right hands; as he moved them apart he smiled to see the moments sep...
He had no answer. He had no right to all the grace and bounty of this world, earned and maintained by the work, the devotion, the faithfulness of its people. Paradise is for those who make Paradise. H...
He copulated with a number of girls, but copulation was not the joy it ought to be. It was a mere relief of need, like evacuating, and he felt ashamed of it afterward because it involved another perso...
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Geraldine Brooks: People of the Book
For we each of us deserve everything, every luxury that was ever piled in the tombs of the dead kings, and we each of us deserve nothing, not a mouthful of bread in hunger. Have we not eaten while ano...
For in this love he now felt there was compassion: without which love is untempered, and is not whole, and does not last.
Dragons think we are amusing. But they remember Erreth-Akbe. They speak of him as if he were a dragon, not a man.
Don’t WORry if OTHers disaGREE DON’T WORry if OTHers DISagree Don’t WORry if OTHers DISaGREE