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Perhaps it is a human thing, to look upon such beauty and fail to encompass it.

Stay a little while longer, and let everyone congratulate you - including the ones who clearly don't want to: in fact, especially the ones who clearly don't want to. You don't have to say anything but...

I wasn't grateful. You want to talk cranky, coitus interruptus takes me well beyond cranky. My engorged labia felt like they were pressing on my brain-what there was of my brain-and if I didn't get to...

Sylvi wished she could gouge out the look in Dorogin's stony eyes, and change the course of history. She wished Fthoom had been eaten by a sea monster.

Yes, I am letting my own experience color my answer, which is what experience is for....

Now she and the widow had something in common, though loss did not pass from one person to another like a baton. It just formed a bigger and bigger pool of carriers. And she thought, scratching the...

If you wish, I shall go personally to your City and knock together the heads of Perlith and Galooney.

As I have said, you have no reason to trust me, and an excellent reason not to.

No wonder he'd never really finished becoming one of us. We just thought it was because he was half Japanese, and lived in a huge house on the other side of town with a dad who was never home and who...

Because she was a princess she had a pegasus.

Cannot a Beast be tamed?

If you try to breathe water, you will not turn into a fish, you will drown; but water is still good to drink.

You are attempting to be logical, I suspect, and logic has little to do with government, and nothing at all to do with military administration.

The sheep, I guess demented with love, didn't object to this at all. Casimir somehow found time to pull up some grass for it, and it lay down and munched its grass and then chewed its cud like hanging...

Everything was an adventure, at night, when you were where you shouldn't be, even if it was somwhere you could go perfectly well in daylight, and it was then only ordinary.

In fact, she would have added the rider that she wasn't sure it could be done at all, getting to know someone at any succession of such parties, however prolonged.

All you did was sit there, he said. Why are you so tired?I sat very diligently, she said.

I found that the only way I could control this sorrow was not to think of {it} at all, which was almost as painful as the loss itself.

He will apologize, or I'll give him a lesson in swordplay he will not like at all.

There had been certain romantic interludes in the past that had included galloping across the desert at night; but he had never abducted any woman whose enthusiastic support for such a plan had not...

Even Mongo liked him, although Mongo likes everybody. {Also Mongo was so thrilled with himsel for staying in the dog bed till I'd released him that was going to blow his mood.}

...there remained a strange formality between them, and her pleasure in his presence felt too much like missing him had felt during the last week.

The rich smell of the rose was almost visible; I fancied it lent a rosy edge to the shadows cast by the firelight.

I love you. I will love you till the stars crumble, which is a less idle threat than is usual to lovers on parting.

Beauty: You called me beautiful last night.Beast: You do not believe me then?Beauty: Well - no. Any number of mirrors have told me otherwise.Beast: You will find no mirrors here, for I cannot bear...

I said: He cannot be so bad if he loves roses so much.But he is a Beast, said Father helplessly.I saw that he was weakening, and wishing only to comfort him I said, Cannot a Beast be tamed?

He laughed, tried to make it into a cough, inhaled at exactly the wrong moment, and then really did cough.

...My friend, there are some things that I cannot tell you. Some I will tell you in time; some, others will tell you; some you may never know, or you may be the first to find the answers.

Majid gave me a brief dazzling golden stare and then half-lidded his eyes again. I know when my life is being threatened.

At least I was true. My intellectual abilities gave me a release, and an excuse. I shunned company because I preferred books; and the dreams I confided to my father were of becoming a scholar in good...

I feel like a potato that's recently been mashed,"she said."

What was she to say? The prodigal has returned? The mutineer wishes to be reinstated? The subordinate, having gone to a great deal of trouble to prove her commander wrong, has come back and promises...

One doesn't generally look into mirrors when one is especially angry; one has better things to do, like pace the floor or throw things.