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
Often, one can be in love with who they think someone is, while being blinded by their own desires. And just as often, instead of being in love with a lover, one is in love with love.
His nose in the door and
Why do we grow up thinking life should be fair? Who told us that it should be? Because it never is, and finding that out . . . hurts worse than a lie.
We're none of us quite so sure of our place in the world that we can't be rocked off our feet by bad times. It's the getting back up again that counts. Not that you fall, but getting back up again cou...
There’s your real heroes—the people who keep coping, keep trying, no matter how many blows Fate takes at them.
Teach what you know, regardless of when you have learned it -- teach what you learned yesterday sagely, as if you have known it all your life, and teach what you have known for decades with enthusiasm...
Sympathy can be addictive and can kill strong men as surely as a diet of nothing but sugar.
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.
No, General. Not necessarily what you thin you want. Your heart knows what you want, but often your head has some other idea. It is the task of the kesta'chern to ask your heart, and not your head, wh...
No matter how many times we prove otherwise, the men don’t seem to believe we can take care of ourselves. Which is ridiculous, Rosa agreed, Especially when you consider how many settler women over the...
Like I said, I know bullies. Deflect, deflect, make them think they got their way even when they didn’t, but never actually give in to them. Become innocuous, not worth tormenting or thinking about.
I’m getting too old to hit attractive men over the head and carry them off. And the sad part is, I’m so old that’s the only way I can get them!
It isn't wise to be rude to one's mother. She knows everything about your childhood that is potentially embarassing.
It is only a fairy tale. They always end sadly.
Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.
In his experience, true leaders seldom had or needed flamboyant titles.
If you don’t look after your fellow man, if you think that what you want is always more important than what anyone else wants or needs, you’re not human, and that’s that.
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.