Loyalty, he stated, ineffably gentle. A quality honoured by sages and fools, by which humankind finds the courage to trample the reflex for self-preservation.
Mage-taught wisdom reproached him: any gift of power was two-edged.
But hope always kindles through striving.
Because you’ve survived, there is a next strategy.
What is a flaw but a human mistake, or an ignorance that sees without options?
Speak for yourself. Only rank ignorance measures a man by appearances.
Show me a hero and I'll show you a man enslaved by his competence.
Death has no repeal. It is a brute ending that leaves us the legacy of an inscrutable silence. Therefore, I understand the voice of mercy very well.
An act made in fear is not the same thing as an action taken for necessity.
You can't let your past write the future
There are many reasons to avoid taking risks. Friendship is not among them.
How much suffering did you lay on yourself before you awakened and recognized that guilt is deadly, and empty, and profitless?
Hate has no ears.
There is no terror so powerful as the one never faced.
Sithaer's dark furies, Dakar swore. Why do I stay with you?For maudlin entertainment, no doubt.
Mockery is the sure mark of the cynic, unredeemed and cut off from salvation.
The resolution of the great West Gate Prophecy.
You always did like to run things, never mind your crafty knack for making everyone believe that somebody else was in charge.
Look at yourself, idiot. You reek like the slaughter-house. Plan your dastard’s revenge as you like. But for those of us liking our company civilized, spare us the horror and bathe yourself first!
How often ignorance stings less than knowledge.