About Kate Elliott: Kate Elliott is the pen name of American fantasy and science fiction writer Alis A. Rasmussen (born 1958).
A kiss can be like the world turning over. It can be like the tide of a dragon's dream washing through the unseen world that is hidden to mortal eyes but that nevertheless permeates our being. It can be hot and cold together, as vast as the heavens a...
...anyone can make a desert and call it peace...
We don't have to accept the things we might change.
The history of the world begins with a seed. The seed is the kernel of what you are, but it is also the promise of what you can become.
Can we ever see the truth when desire blinds us? Or do we call it the truth because it is what we wish to see?
The skin of frozen snow crunched satisfyingly beneath my boots as I smashed each step into the ground just as I planned to smash my foes.
Never let it be said that I could not talk my way out of any trouble that I could not punch.
It's the ones who can't let go - of fear or anger, lust or greed, vanity or pride or power - who are most at risk of becoming corrupted.
Are these soldiers really our enemy, or only the worst reflection of our own selves?... We made them. We have to unmake them, not just defeat or kill them.
War was so simple, wasn't it? Much simpler than justice.
You learn to ride on the path and keep your eyes open so you can see what is there, not what you wish were there.... And then after all you might discover that what is there is what you wished for all along.
Listen, my father had written. Listen to hear if they are telling the truth or only part of the truth, for that is the lesson of history: that the victors tell the tale of their triumph in a manner to grant accolades to themselves and heap blame upon...
