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- After love, no one is what they were before.
- When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier.
- Most of them... most of us never figure it out. Bad dream, they think, or good one. Funny rash, never really goes away, but Doc…
- We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps…
- I will not let her speak because I love her, and when you love someone, you do not make them tell war stories. A war…
- All children are heartless. They have not grown a heart yet, which is why they can climb tall trees and say shocking things and leap…
- When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier. That does not mean it IS brighter and lovelier; it just means that sweet, kindly home…
- Such lonely, lost things you find on your way. It would be easier, if you were the only one lost. But lost children always find…
- Because I’m a cat. A big one, the Panther of Rough Storms, in fact. But still a cat. If there’s a saucer of milk to…
- Things that are unsightly: birthmarks, infidelity, strangers in one's kitchen. Too much sunlight. Stitches. Missing teeth. Overlong guests.
- Never trust anyone under one hundred!
- Wishes of one's old life wither and shrivel like old leaves if they are not replaced with new wishes when the world changes. And the…
- I think that one morning, the Papess woke in her tower, and her blankets were so warm, and the sun was so golden, she could…
- The old order, it is good for the old. A farmer wants his son to be afraid of beautiful women, so that he will not…
- The world is not made of countries and outsiders. We are all just humans, and most of us fools and all of us longing for…
- Oh, but Masha, can’t you see? You are. An Ivan has come. That is like saying, Midnight has struck. It is time for bed, little…
- Hats change everything. September knew this with all her being, deep in the place where she knew her own name, and that her mother would…
- One can never be sure,” the Green Wind sighed. “There is always the danger of kisses where sleeping maids are concerned. But you are safe…
- If one did not have at least a little luck, one would never survive childhood. But luck can be spent, like money; and lost, like…
- I am a Prince," he replied, being rather dense. "It is the function of a Prince—value A—to kill monsters—value B—for the purpose of establishing order—value…
- Whenever one does extraordinary things, someone is bound to try to repeat them for themselves. It's the way of the world.
- No one is now what they were before the war. There’s just no getting any of it back.
- You will always go into that tent. You will see her scar and wonder where she got it. You will always be amazed at how…
- I know you loved both he and I, the way a mother can love two sons. And no one should be judged for loving more…
- One of the many quotes on love..."Love can come only with time and sentience. We learn it as we learn language--and some never learn it…
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