Quincy laughed. “If I were Elizabeth I shouldn’t thank either of you for that comforting diagnosis. Would it do any good to open Aunt Sarai’s grave and drive a stake through her? If you believe...

Impari lentamente, mio amato, ma impari. E ciò che si impara lentamente scende più nel profondo. Voi uomini e i vostri Dei! Vi beffate della Madre per la sua lentezza da lumaca, perché crea ciecamente...

It isn’t brave to do something you’re not afraid to do.

Five actors playing allotted parts on a set stage; and now he, for whom no part had been written, had walked onto the stage unexpectedly, because one of the players had turned rebel, as she...

It was so awful! And he kept on looking at me and I knew I must get out of bed or he’d come and touch me. I did, too, but when I got out I...

Are these black cats like the hare?””No. They’re smaller; they only want me to play with them. Fly away with them to a place on the other side of the moon. There’s a garden there,...

Also another time she had wakened in dead of night, thinking that something touched her, and when she looked she saw that a black scaly tail, tufted with flame at the end, like a fiend’s,...

He asked, looking at her dark-rimmed eyes, “You do not sleep?”She shivered. “No. I do not want to sleep any more. I sleep too much already. It is so cold, where Quincy sends me in...

The doctor from the mainland came and went. Silence settled over the island again, like a displaced curtain falling back in thickened, heavier folds. For there was a different quality in the silence now. It...

Outside the drizzling rain had begun again. It pattered around the house, and on the roofs and eaves, like a million, tiny, stealthy feet: softly, as though the night were teeming with a host of...