Pride is the luxury of the strong”.

Elodin proved a difficult man to find. He had an office in Hollows, but never seemed to use it. When I visited Ledgers and Lists, I discovered he only taught one class: Unlikely Maths. However,...

Practice makes the master.

Then, slowly, my feet settled to the ground. Before I had taken six steps I sagged like a sail when the wind fades. As I walked back through the town, past sleeping houses and dark...

She knew the true shape of the world. All else was shadow and the sound of distant drums.

She stamped her foot. She hoped the greedy thing shit for a week. She hoped it shit its awful self insideout and backward, then fell into a crack and lost it’s name and died alone...

Go on, take it.

She wasn’t dressed like a student. She wore an elaborate burgundy dress with long skirts, a tight waist, and matching burgundy gloves that rose all the way to her elbows.Moving deliberately, she managed to get...

There are so many men, all endlessly attempting to sweep me off my feet. And there is one of you, trying just the opposite. Making sure my feet are firm beneath me, lest I fall.

There’s looking and there’s looking. When some men look at you it’s a greasy thing. It makes you want to have a bath. With other men it’s nice. It helps you know you’re beautiful.

Sabes que eres listo. Ese es tu punto débil. Das por hecho que sabes dónde te metes, pero no lo sabes.

If I ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking.

A tree doesn’t make a thunderstorm, but any fool knows where lighting´s going to strike”.

I can’t count the men who have tried to seduce me away from my virtue by teaching me how to defend it.

Bad business last night. Chances are, that would be all Graham had to say about the death of a man he had known his whole life. These folk knew all about death. They killed their...

Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain. Classic thinking teaches us of the four doors of the mind, which everyone moves through according to their need.First is the...

It was deep and wide as autumn’s ending. It was heavy as a great river-smooth stone. It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.

You are unmannerly,sharp-tounged, and show no respect for your betters,which is practically everyone given your lowly ravel birth.””I am Edema Ruh to my bones.That means my blood is red.It means I breathe the free air...

Nothing was nothing else. Nothing was anything it shouldn’t be.

He suggested several unpleasant, unsanitary things I could do to myself at my earliest convenience.

I am as lovely as the moon.

Kid’s books should be just as good as any other books. No. They should be held to a *higher* standard than other literature for the same reason that we take extra care with children’s food.

It was the sort of anger that comes to a slow boil inside the hearts of good men who want justice, and finding it out oftheir grasp, decide vengeance is the next best thing.

But for half a minute she wished it was a different sort of day, even though she knew that nothing good could come from wanting at the world.

Never quenched. Though I am doused in you, I burn.