There was a flash, a tingling pain in my head, and then a lingering, dull ache. For some reason that didn't surprise me. You don't gain knowledge without a little pain.
There is more to the world than what a review board publishes about an officer or aeronaut, Miss Lancaster. Guard. Your. Tongue.
There had to be something I could do. Had to be. There had to be.
There are a lot of things I can't control. I don't know what's going to happen in the next few days.I don't want what I am going to face, what kind of choices I am going to have to make. I can't predi...
The path of excess leads to the palace of wisdom, he said, and turned for the door.
Tell me something about her. People make fun of her?Some did, she said. I never liked it, but...Crap. I looked at Molly and said, Code Carrie. We're in trouble.
Technicality, Shiro said. The cigars? My Christianity, Shiro said. When I was a boy, I liked Elvis. Had a chance to see him in concert when we moved to California. It was a big revival meeting. There...
Tavi grinned. ‘Are you with me?’ ‘The plan is insane,’ Ehren said. ‘You are insane.’ He looked around the inside of the tent. ‘I’ll need some pants.
She looked up at me with a polite smile, her dark hair long and appealing...I liked the smile. Maybe I didn't look like a beaten-up bum. Maybe on me it just looked ruggedly determined.I'm sorry, sir,...
See? This is why I'm not religious. I couldn't possibly keep my mouth shut long enough to get along with everyone else.
Politics is the purview of scoundrels, tyrants, and fools.
People have far more power than they realize, if they would only choose to use it.
Paradox is an overrated threat. There is...a quality similar to inertia at work. Once an event has occurred, there is an extremely strong tendency for that event to occur. The larger, more significant...
Pain is there to tell us when we’ve done something badly—it’s a teacher, a guide, one that is always there to both warn us of our limitations and challenge us to overcome them.
Pain is a part of life. Sometimes it’s a big part, and sometimes it isn’t, but either way, it’s part of the big puzzle, the deep music, the great game. Pain does two things: It teaches you, tells you...
One thing about intimidation is that people can always think up something worse that you could do to them than you can, if you leave their imagination some room to play.
One can have only as much preparation as he has foresight - Gard
Okay, I said, fear making my voice weak. This is bad. This is very, very bad. Wish
Oh, what would you like on your vegetarian pizza? Dead pigs and cows, I said. She glanced up at me and wrinkled her nose. They're vegetarians, I said defensively.
Ogres were wyldfae--they could work for either Winter or Summer, and they could have a range of personalities and temperaments running the gamut from jovially violent to maliciously violent.