Her nightmare clung to her like the smell of smoke to cloth.

Wait, I want more green. I hope I did not imply I only wanted your colors. We can't turn a cold shoulder to green, and blue, and purple, for the sake of all ordered things, how can you dismiss purple? Celi, call Nom back and tell him of my need for purple!

The snow was too light to stay, the ground too warm to keep it. And the strange spring snow fell only in that golden moment of dawn, the turning of the page between night and day.

There you go...let it all slide out. Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when it's slick with tears.

She put a wedge beside my heart And then she brought the mallet down She sang no song to guide her work I lost my heart without a sound

I couldn't see what was real until time had washed away everything else.

Oh, but I like my geese. Like cats, they can't be told what to do, and like dogs, they're loyal, and like people, they talk every chance they get.