Anyone who thought this would be a weak point in the manor's defenses would have a rude surprise, shortly before coming down with a serious case of death.
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.
You marry who you think your beloved is, and then discover who they really are over the years. It’s that discovery that makes a marriage work.
You look like you’ve swallowed a live fish, and you’re not certain if you’re enjoying the experience.
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...
We're given a choice in our lives, to make things better, or worse, or merely endure like sheep. I choose to make things better, as much as I can.
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...
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...
Little Robin had been brought by Lord Orthallen—although he had the feeling that his lord did not realize it. The boy was a part of his household, though Orthallen seemed to have long since forgotten...
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!
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.
Do you know the kind of things that live up there?...things without names 'cause no one who's seen 'em has lived long enough to give them any name besides 'AAAARG!
By such little victories are wars and hearts won,
And when it comes down to cases, everything written is at least in part a fantasy. Except maybe for the national budget. That’s horror.
Always seeing a child as the innocent left you open to not seeing when the child was scheming to take you down. It
:No one runs from anything quite like they run from change.:
