Tam Lin says rabbits give up when they’re caught by coyotes […]. He says they consent to die because their animals and can’t understand hope. But humans are different. They fight against death no matter...

She would drink until the trembling stopped. Then she would wilt over the piano like one of Celia’s spinaches when Tam Lin forgot to water the garden.

I am she who lifts the mountainsWhen she goes to hunt,Who wears mamba for a headbandAnd a lion for a belt.Beware!I swallow elephants wholeAnd pick my teeth with rhinoceros horns,I drink up rivers to get...

Tom is a filthy little pustule. If you quote me, I’ll deny it!

Look around you…Feel the wind, smell the air. Listen to the birds and watch the sky. Tell me what’s happening in the wide world.

I always say the truth is best even when we find it unpleasant. Any rat in a sewer can lie. It’s how rats are. It’s what makes them rats. But a human doesn’t run and...

After all, what is suffering but an awareness of suffering?

The high point of your life was when you knocked me down

No one can tell the difference between a clone and a human. That’s because there isn’t any difference. The idea of clones being inferior is a filthy lie.

Before the next minute had passed, they had all fallen to the ground. Just like that. As though someone had reached inside and turned off a switch.”What happened?” Matt asked, gasping.I went from one person...

Power’s a strange thing, lad. It’s a drug people like me crave it.

I love you,” Matt said.I love you, too,” Maria replied. “I know that’s a sin, and I’ll probably go to hell for it.”If I have a soul, I’ll go with you,” promised Matt.

Quests always have their ups and downs,’ rumbled the giant. ‘The point is never to give up, even if you’re falling off a cliff. You never know what might happen on the way to the...

But I also know that to ignore joy while it lasts, in favor of lamenting one’s fate, is a great crime.

Heroes, well, they don’t live so long. But they’re muy suave, and we all admire them.