The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.
Pham Nuwen plunked himself down, stretching indolently.
The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.
All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that cannot be twisted to villainy or good, but which simply is.
I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.
Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all – no one's around to write horror stories.