Well, Clarice said, once the pirates were safely out of earshot. Nobody shot us. Yet, Dominick answered.
There’s no such thing as `one, true way’; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself; leave the world better than you found it. Love, freedom, and the chance to do some good — th...
One never bothers to think about growing old as one is growing older. Then suddenly it is there, looming in your face.
It isn't wise to be rude to one's mother. She knows everything about your childhood that is potentially embarassing.
When there’s nothing to be done you might as well get some sleep, because when there is something to be done you’re going to wish you’d had some. As
Townsfolk can get downright touchy over the occasional earth-elemental in the scullery. Can’t imagine why....
The willpower to do anything would come, the songs and writings said, if the motive was pure.
The night-sylphs, all of them, were armed with what looked like swords of glass. The pixies and the tiny ones were armed too, if not with knives and miniature swords , then with their own long claws....
Sympathy can be addictive and can kill strong men as surely as a diet of nothing but sugar.
Suddenly my palms were damp and I was more nervous than I’d been facing down that Mage. After all, the only thing he could do was kill me horribly. These people…they could make me look stupid.
Stories ain’t about the feller what wrote ’em, even if he pertends they are. They don’ even hev t’be true to be right! Stories are ’bout what they make you feel. If’n they make you feel good, an’ make...
Remember this always: to have something, sometimes you must be willing to lose it. Love must live free, jel’enedra. Love must ever live free.
Not forgiving someone is like not pulling a thorn out of your foot just because you weren't the one to put it there.
My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure. Pure what, I don’t think I want to know.
Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.
I'm not out to disturb anybody's faith. I happen to be happy and comfortable with a belief system that has a dual deity and operates on a lunar schedule. It suits my needs. If you happen to be happy a...
I believe that I shall become a curmudgeon. Then at least I can complain, and it will be expected of me.
Healer Myrim made no attempt to conceal the fact that Orthallen's treachery had not surprised her. Nor did she conceal that his demise gave her a certain grim satisfaction. But then, she might well be...
First commandment: there ain't no such thing as one true way and the way you find is only good for you, not anybody else, because your interpretation of what you see and feel and understand as the tru...
But the purpose of stories was to take the ugly, terrifying truths with which one must live and turn them into brave and beautiful ideas one might love.
