The vampires have always been metaphors for me. They've always been vehicles through which I can express things I have felt very, very deeply.
Hey, we've all got problems, chum. I'm overly talkative. You look like a field of buttercups in a suit.
Jabor finally appeared at the top of the stairs, sparks of flame radiating from his body and igniting the fabric of the house around him. He caught sight of the boy, reached out his hand and stepped forward. And banged his head nicely on the low-slung attic door.
We communicated with pithy, rather monosyllabic thoughts: viz. Run, Jump, Where? Left, Up, Duck, ect. (This latter was an observation I made on the edge of a lake. Nathaniel unfortunately took it as a command, which resulted in our temporary immersion. ) We didn't ever quite say Ug, but it was a close-run thing.
I rather think he knew anyway.
Despite his crimped shirts and flowing mane (or perhaps because of them) I had seen no evidence as yet that Nathaniel even knew what a girl was. If he'd ever met one, chances are they'd both have run screaming in opposite directions.
In recent weeks it has come to my attention that many caravans have met with disaster; they have not gotten through. " I grunted wisely. "Probably ran out of water. That's the thing about deserts. Dry. " "Indeed. A fascinating analysis. But survivors reaching Hebron report differently: monsters fell upon them in the wastes. " "What, fell upon them in a squashed-them kind of way?" "More the leaped-out-and-slew-them kind. (. . . )
We are living in a Millennial culture that is attacking "patriarchy. " The culture in America as zeroed in, and it's been going on and it's been building since the modern era of the feminazis began, since the late sixties and early seventies.
I've been in a competitive situation almost all my life. I've been having a competition with myself and trying to be the best I could be.
It is hard to put a price on some things. What is the value of having prevented nuclear weapons from getting into the hands of a dictator like Saddam Hussein - or of Gadhafi ?
When poverty is more disgraceful than even vice, is not morality cut to the quick?