He doesn’t need a donkey, ” says Ana Kuya. “He has a wife.

The ox feels the yoke, but does the bird feel the weight of its wings?

I have loved you all my life, Mal, " I whispered through my tears. "There is no end to our story.

Do you answer a question directly?""Hard to say. Ah, there, I've done it again

Mal snickered. "What's so funny?""I just pictured the Darkling being cornered by a sweaty duchess trying to have her way with him.

I may not have been completely honest about that.""You? Less than truthful? I'm shocked, Nikolai. Shocked and horrified.

I opened my mouth, but the same words came to me again and again.I will not scream. I will not scream. I will not scream.

Of course I'm jealous. I thought I was going to get to punch him. That isn't the point.

David looked at me, then, the regret plain on his face. No matter what I said, we both knew the hard truth. We do our best. We try. And usually, it makes no difference at all

At that moment, the creature's back breached the waves, its body cutting through the water in a sinuous arch, rainbows sparking off the iridescent scales on its back. Rusalye.

I don't think-""Clearly. Why start now?

What use is of an eye to be open if it's not there to see! Shouldn't it rather be gauged or closed for it deceives?

I don't know much about gods, but I think the river is a strong, brown god

All civilizations at some time have fallen into this total terror, when the mystery of life was a kind of panic only to be assuaged by the spilling of blood.

That's the worst way you can hear about comedy material: from a third person's blog story that they wrote when they were upset.

Apathy is one of the characteristic responses of any living organism when it is subjected to stimuli too intense or too complicated to cope with. The cure for apathy is comprehension.

A visit to a museum is a search for beauty, truth, and meaning in our lives. Go to museums as often as you can.

Life is too serious to be taken seriously.

That which is denied gains power, and seeks strange and unexpected forms of manifestation.

In the last 10 years, in narcotics task forces, in a number of violent crime task forces, we've worked very closely together with state and local law enforcement.

Myself I must remake.