There's always someone's father, someone's mother, someone's wife, someone's son. This is the problem with killing and eating people. One of the problems.
And this was the end of my first friendship with one of that innumerable company of people who are foreigners in their own country, but who are in reality its finest sons....
Fighting in the name of freedom has too high a price," Merlin sighed as he leaned into his mother's arms.
This is a long goodbye, yet not time enough. I have no aptitude for this. I cannot learn this. I would hold on, and hold on, until my hands clutch at emptiness.
The universe had an odd sense of fairness; it took away things one did not want to give up, and then gave things one did not ask for.
That woman was sexy. . . . Out of your league? Son, let women figure out why they won't screw you. Don't do it for them.
He would be able to suffer what his son had suffered. He would be able to suffer and his suffering would for an instance displace his grief.
Why won't you drown?" he wailed, pummeling me with his fists. "I'm Poseidon's son," I said. "Curse that upstart! I was here first!
Today, tomorrow," she said. "A day is nothing. A day is just a match you strike after the ten thousand matches before it have gone out.
Ga thought about reminding the Dear Leader that they lived in a land where people had been trained to accept any reality presented to them.
‘Foo Kyu’ is just a very unfortunate cultural coincidence." "Just think about his poor son, ‘Foo Kyu Two.’
They had a saying: An Arab loves in the order of: his son, his camel, and his wife - but there were times when one was allowed to take precedence over the other!
Nada más capcioso que las apariencias de humildad. A veces nacen de pereza para sostener una opinión y a veces son un modo indirecto de elogiarse a sí mismo.
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
She knows that feeling too. Of believing that each time someone says her name, it’s to tell her that something bad has happened.
the harsh truth of every relationship, even between those who love each other, like fathers and sons and daughters, or husbands and wives, is that the love is always unequal.
I think good advice for a father to give to his only son would be, "Don't make the same mistake I made with your mother. Remember to pull out.
Humans have reason to hate us dragons. If one dragon turns against humankind, he is a great and terrible foe.
Tomás no se daba cuenta en aquella ocasión de que las metáforas son peligrosas. Con las metáforas no se juega. El amor puede surgir de una sola metáfora.
In our world," said Eustace, "a star is a huge ball of flaming gas." Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of.
We are beautiful because we are sons and daughters of God, not because we look a certain way.
