“The mad King, the bad King, the sad King. Ring-a-ding-ding, all hail the King!”
― Black House
― Black House
“At the end of her life she was aware of heat but not pain. She had time to consider his eyes, eyes of that blue which is the color of the sky at first light of the morning. She had time to think of him on the Drop, riding Rusher flat out with his black hair flying back from his temples and his neckerchief rippling; to see him laughing with an ease and freedom he would never find again in the long life which stretched out for him beyond hers, and it was his laughter she took with her as she went out, fleeing the light and heat in to the silkly, consoling dark, calling to him over and over as she went, calling bird and bear and hare and fish.”
― Wizard and Glass
― Wizard and Glass
“An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story. It should say: Listen. Come in here. You want to know about this.”
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“If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone”
― Wizard and Glass
― Wizard and Glass
“When you put on a clown suit and a rubber nose, nobody has any idea what you look like inside.”
― 11/22/63
― 11/22/63
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