I thought… I thought you might…” “Help you? By my grove, I am helping you. You’re not starving anymore, are you? You had a dry night’s sleep, too, and you’re no longer coughing your liver...

He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for...

It was strange how the future seemed tied inseparably to the past, so that both revolved through the present, like a great wheel…

In bad times, a king or a queen can be a rock for the waters to crash against, so those less strong are not washed away. I will be such a rock. Only give me...

You are only a prisoner when you surrender.

Sometimes people need reasons for things, even when there are no reasons. That’s what makes people believe in conspiracies or religions – if there is any difference. The world is just too complicated, so they...

He led them around the base of a great fallen tree whose exposed roots resembled more than anything else a huge broom – a broom that would have fired the imagination of Rachel the Dragon...

Whatever my ancestors did to you, none of them consulted me.

For all the things we’ve seen… my goodness, the world still has more to show us, doesn’t it?

Welcome to the Information Jungle.

I haven’t met that many women, human or angelic, who actually like to drive. In my experience they seem to be much more pragmatic about the whole thing than we are. For most males, driving...

He had once thought it was strange to have a friend you’d never met. Now it was even stranger, losing a friend you’d never really had

Fear goes where it is invited.

Tangaloor, fire-brightFlame-foot, farthest walkerYour hunter speaksIn need he walksIn need, but never in fear.

Even the king’s Erkynguard might have wished to be elsewhere, rather than here on this killing ground where duty brought them and loyalty prisoned them. Only the mercenaries were here by choice. To Simon, the...

Ah? A small aversion to menial labor?” The doctor cocked an eyebrow. “Understandable, but misplaced. One should treasure those hum-drum tasks that keep the body occupied but leave the mind and heart unfettered.

Was Briony the only person who could hear the venom dripping from the woman’s tongue? What good was beauty — a mature beauty, but beauty nonetheless — if it cloaked such a viperous soul?

I’ve always preferred the city at night. I believe that San Judas, or any city, belongs to the people who sleep there. Or maybe they don’t sleep – some don’t – but they live there....

Dear DiaryWent out shopping today. Picked up half a dozen sheep, two pigs, and a princess. The sheep are rather depressingly thin, the pigs and princess only slightly less so. Dear DiaryWent out shopping today....

After all, is it not the way we humans shape the universe, shape time itself? Do we not take the raw stuff of chaos and impose a beginning, middle, and end on it, like the...

You show me what someone listens to, I’ll tell you everything you want to know about his soul. (For instance, a bunch of Nickelback albums would have indicated he never had a soul in the...

Remember that each light between sunrise and sunset is worth dying for at least once.

She had to find her own story, and she could make it whatever shape she thought best.

What’s the light of Heaven look like on earth? Like sunlight streaming through clouds in the tackiest garage sale painting you ever saw. Really, it’s so beautiful it’s embarrassing. No subtlety whatsoever.

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.

…Coca-Cola and fries, the wafer and wine of the Western religion of commerce.