Odds of a worm migration coming this way – about a billion to one. Odds of Elspeth improving her behavior without help – about the same. Sleep well, young friends.
Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.
The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie down and play dead for censors.
Hey, Geekoid!” yelled Duncan Dougal, “Why do you read so much? Don’t you know how to watch TV?
Sometimes when you mend a chain, the place where you fix it is strongest of all... Never was a chain that couldn’t be broken. Sometimes its even a good idea.
Still, the painful death of that unicorn had been satisfying to watch.
How in the world do you tellyour wife that her mother was born a unicon?
Chains,” said the Tinker, coming up behind her. “They bind us, whether we want them to or not. But a heart without chains would have nothing to hold it, might simply blow away.
I like fixing things,” he said as he worked. “The world is always breaking, here and there, this way and that. Fix a bit of it, and I feel like I’m helping.
If you don’t jump, the wings never come.
Gadfangled girl things, always robbed me of my common sense.
All these guys picking on smart kids and calling them geeks and dweebs are going to grow up and want to know why they don’t do something about the terrible state the world is in. I can tell you why. By the time they grow up, most of the kids who realy could have changed things are wrecked.
The first draft of a story is the writer’s clay.
I am ignoring you. In fact, I think you are a figment of my imagination.