Which in retrospect just goes to show that a pretty face can inspire even a bodiless spirit of intellect to dizzying heights of idiocy.
When the Almighty speaks to men, He always does it in voices they can understand,
When it happens to a wizard, insurance companies go broke and there’s reconstruction afterward. What was stirring in me now made those previous feelings of battle rage seem like anemic kittens.
When I started, I was pretty sure I was going to be writing some goofy little wizard novels that might make me some part-time money and would hopefully lead to something I could do better.
Whatever you do, do it for love. If you keep to that, your path will never wander so far from the light that you can never return.
What matters is the success or failure of your will. Your will to overcome human weakness. Your will to work. To learn. I will have no shirkers here, boy.
What is this thing you speak of, ‘sleep’?
We’re stunning—and we need to be, if we’re to make a good impression and accomplish our goals. It’s vain, it’s stupid, and it’s shallow, but that makes it no less true.
We're always disappointed when we find out someone has human limits, the same as we do. It's stupid for us to feel that way, and we really ought to know better, but that doesn't seem to slow us down.
We all have our demons.
Vadderung grinned. I’ve never heard it phrased quite like that, but it’s accurate enough. In any event, overcoming that inertia requires tremendous energy, will, and a measure of simple luck. If one w...
Uriel smiled. Collin, like the others, is wit me because he is not yet prepared to face what comes next. When he is, he'll take that step. For now, he is not.When you say , what do you mean, exactly?T...
Troubleshooters? Michael asked.When there's trouble, I told him, they shoot it.
Tragically misunderstood? Hah! I understand you, buddy. You’re such a pompous, arrogant, pretentious, chauvinistic, hopelessly old-fashioned, stupidly pigheaded
Tonight you will be visited by three spirits. The ghosts of indictment past, present, and future. They will teach you the true meaning of 'you are still a scumbag criminal.
Those who write them do, Ferus said. They leave bits and pieces behind them when they lay down the words, some scraps and smears of their essential nature. He sniffed. Most untidy, really—but assemble...
Those who have such a family seldom realize how rare and precious it is.
Thomas has the kind of whiter-than-white boyish grin that makes women's panties spontaneously evaporate.
Thomas grunted. Might have been smarter for them to have left you alone. Now you know something.I made an exasperated sound. Yes. Those fools. By trying to kill me, they've revealed their very souls....
Thomas barked out a laugh. There are of us against the Red King and his thirteen most powerful nobles, and it's going well?Mouse sneezed.Eight, Thomas corrected himself. He rolled his eyes and said,...