The best neighbor you can have is a tree, a living tree. They listen more than they talk, provide shade on hot days, give you food and shelter, and don’t ask for anything in return.
Strange game, this stating the obvious, Suri said, shaking her head. She got up and joined Minna at the woodpile. Pointless, but popular. Everyone plays it. But as you can see, I’m getting the knack...
Stealing swords, Royce muttered mostly to himself. Okay, let’s take a look at this tower. The sooner I see it, the sooner I can start cursing.
Sometimes the price of dreams is achieving them. Arista
She’s different.Everyone is different.Then let’s say I like the ways in which she’s different. A wise man once told me no man can escape death, but it’s how we run that defines us. And if I have to ru...
Royce turned to Hadrian. It’s supposed to make them look tough, but all it really does is make it easy to identify them as thieves for the rest of their lives. Painting a red hand on everyone is prett...
Royce stared at him a second. What? You heard me-you hear every stupid thing anyone ever says. That’s the most annoying thing about you. Well, not the most -it’s actually really hard to order them. Th...
Rivers age as they go downstream, Suri told Raithe while they looked at the disagreeable gorge. That’s what Tura once told me. They start out as tiny trickles, then in their youth and adolescence are...
Reaching a bench, he dismounted and tied Dancer to the arm. Are you intending to be a student here? one of the older boys asked, looking him over. Hadrian got the impression from the wrinkled nose tha...
Oh, it's nothing to be ashamed of. Slaying a villain in the service of your king is the stuff of legends and what heroes are made of. [Fanen told Myron]It didn't feel very heroic. It made me sick. I d...
None of you understand what love really is. It's not lust, or dependence, or infatuation, or familiarity. Love isn't a fondness or butterflies in your stomach.
Love is the degree to which you are willing to sacrifice your own interests for those of another. It doesn’t matter what sex you are. It doesn’t matter who you are, or were. It only matters that you c...
It’s hard to explain the feeling of it—the power—it’s as if I can do anything. Can you imagine knowing you can do anything? It’s exciting, alluring—it draws you in and you want it like a hunger. You f...
It has taken a long time to find, but there is a pattern to the world. Wobble it and it corrects, which should be impossible; chaos should beget chaos. Order should be only one possibility and drowned...
Is this where it was? Royce asked, stopping and studying the base of the tower.How should I know? Hadrian replied as his eyes coursed up the length of the south tower. Up close, it blocked everything...
If you don't abandon hope on pleasant days, why do so on those that being poorly?
If given a choice between a potentially great hardship and doing nothing, people gravitate toward what was most familiar and comfortable. That was why leadership was needed. To do what was necessary r...
I think comfort can be a curse, an addiction that without warning or notice erodes hope. Live it long enough and the prison stops being the walls or the guards. Instead, it's the fear you can't surviv...
I suspect she, or someone she reports to, read the note I left in my pack. You left a note for the thieves’ guild? What did it say? Just that they were my animals and that they might want to reconside...
Happiness comes from moving toward something. When you run away, ofttimes you bring your misery with you.Who are you quoting now?No one, Myron said. I learned that one first hand.