There was nothing we could do to stop whatever was going on, and there was no point in trying to imagine what was being done. I come from farm folk, Herald. We know when there’s nothing to be done you...
Priests confine broad truths into narrow doctrines, because more rules mean that they have more power. Priests mistake their own prejudice for conscience and mistake what they personally fear for what...
Once the blinders are off, it's rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to.
Of three things be wary-of a feather on a cat,The shepherd eating mutton,And a guardsman that is fat.
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.
Keep breathing. Exhale all the hurt and sorrow, inhale the untainted air.
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's just as easy to be lonely in a city as out in the wilderness. Easier, really. It's harder to get to know someone when you meet in a crowded place. People can freely ignore you in the city; they c...
It isn't wise to be rude to one's mother. She knows everything about your childhood that is potentially embarassing.
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.
Honor was never taking the easy way when it was also the wrong one. Never telling a falsehood unless the truth was painful and unnecessary, or a lie was necessary to save others. Never manipulating th...
Getting angry over something that won't change is like seeing what happens if you hit your hand with a hammer over and over again, and being surprised each time when it hurts. So you might as well sto...
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...
Established religion is like established anything else. It's easy. It offers answers you can get prepackaged and predigested, right off the shelf, and the same for everybody. No thinking required, muc...
Elves - You can't live with them and there's just no resale value.
Elspeth had the joyous task of breaking the news to the rest of the Council. There was no such accord among the political leaders of Valdemar as there was among her military leaders.Lord Gartheser was...
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 Zeus’s goolies, it’s about time you got here!