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Unless physical action reflects psychic action, unless the deeds express the person, I get very bored with adventure stories; often it seems that the more action there is, the less happens.
We all have forests in our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone.
He had taken the fear into himself, and, accepting, had transcended it. He had given up his self to the alien, an unreserved surrender, that left no place for evil. He had learned the love of the Other, and thereby had been given his whole self.—But this is not the vocabulary of reason.
she thought they were more beautiful than the people she knew, each in a different way, as if each one had invented beauty.
They all fancy themselves mountain men, here since Lewis and Clark.
In his generous, opulent mansion she learned to live quietly, a poor relation, a good girl. Getting better all the time.
My wife comes from Ora-gahn. He said it as if it were a foreign word. It was funny, endearing to her, that he could not pronounce the name of a state of the union. I thought it was Shenek-toddy till I went east, she said. He was incredulous. Anyone knew how to pronounce Schenectady. It was not funny.
as if she had some kind of right to do whatever she wanted wherever and whenever she wanted it.
Teyeo had no regrets. He had lost his world, but he had held fast to the one noble thing.
They learned what people needed to learn, and lived their knowledge.
he knew what he was, here, in the eyes of the ill-natured and the insecure.
those who call themselves the owners, have lived in the belief that there is only one way to be. They have believed they are what people should be, do as people should do, and know all the truth that is known.
Ignorance defends itself savagely, and illiteracy, as I well knew, can be shrewd.
“All the grandmothers are rebels,”
Nobody can be free alone. Not even a mage. All of them working their magic in prison cells, to gain nothing. There’s no way to use power for good.”
All the hope left in the world is in the people of no account.”
