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she admitted one other point about their affair. He had given her the strength to finally end another relationship, which had been totally destructive.

To say the least, it was inconsiderate of Diana's almost-dead husband to show up at her engagement party.

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?

I like that: a little pressure on the understood boundaries of yourself. Sounded like something out of a self-awareness class, probably with yoga. See what kind of a pretzel you can tie yourself into and press on the understood... I was raving, if only to myself.

My kind [vampires] does not surprise easily, he said. You surprised me, this morning. I have thus used up my full quota of shock and consternation for some interval. I stared at him. You made a *joke*. I have heard this kind of thing may happen...

I advise those who want to become writers to study veterinary medicine, which is easier. You don't want to be a writer unless you have no choice - and if you have no choice, good luck to you.

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

I'd always had a guilty preference for fiction. Since I seemed now to be living fiction, this proved to have been an entirely reasonable choice.

But the uproar this caused was nothing compared with the uproar when Katronia noticed [Rosie] had also cut her eyelashes. Various negotiations (including, finally, such desperate measures as supposing you ever want to eat again) eventually produced the grudging promise that, in return for Katronia keeping her hair cut short, she would leave her eyelashes alone.

What … you're a hedgehog!" It stirred at her touch and then curled up tighter. "You're a very small hedgehog. And you shouldn't be wandering round enchanted palaces looking for adventures.

But it is not, as we say when we are being diplomatic, a fruitful source of inquiry.

I knew you'd figure it out, he said. And I hoped that by the time you figured it out, you would be sufficiently accustomed to the situation for the realization to be less... dispiriting.

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.

I—I don't know what possessed me to tell the story tonight. I do believe the storm has crept into my head and disarranged all my thinking.

screen that was longing to give me a lightning-bolt-thunder-roll odin-bloody headache

favorite comfort book since under-the-covers-with-flashlight reading at the age of eleven or twelve)

Fun?" She said, exasperated. "Your attitude is perhaps a little unnecessarily vigorous," suggested Jack.

Jesse reached into a bottom drawer and brought out a bottle of... oh, hey, single-malt scotch. Some SOFs did know how to live.

The tone of her voice said that she felt she was offering me silk thread to build a bridge across a ravine.

If you're a storyteller, your own life streams through you, onto the page, mixed up with the life the story itself brings; you cannot, in any useful or genuine way, separate the two.

The quality of your life ultimately is shaped by the quality of your choices and decisions.

Yogi Raman detected his dismay. "Never overlook the power of simplicity," Julian was told.

As last days go, mine sucked. The last day I would have chosen — the last day I deserved — would have involved more chocolate.

Rather than a great tragedy, the fall of Rome was the single most beneficial event in the rise of Western civilization.