When the dead betray the living, the victims are memories.--The Book of Brin
Fulfillment comes from striving to succeed, to survive by your own wits and strength. Such things make each of us who we are. You lose that in captivity, lose yourself, and that loss saps your capacit...
You really catch a pig in the dark?
It's easier to believe the most outlandish lie that confirms what you suspect than the most obvious truth that denies it.
You can’t have an adversary without being one.
One of the children lived.
Fulfillment comes from striving to succeed, to survive by your own wits and strength.
Verily, for nine hundred years have I lost. Everyone I knew is dead, the empire gone, and who knows in what state the world is left. Should what thy sister reports prove true, much hath changed in the...
[Lying is] a betrayal to one's self. It's evidence of self-loathing. When you are so ashamed of your actions, thoughts, or intentions, you lie rather than accepting yourself for who you really are......
Royce saw to his horse’s needs; then, finding a suitable place, he unrolled his blanket and lay down.I take it we’re camping here, then?Royce said nothing, still refusing to acknowledge his existence....
My name isn’t Shirley.
I just never noticed how little of me existed before. I was a shadow without a person.
That's the thing about hatred, it can become rancid, and it'll turn into poison if you keep it bottled too long. Hatred will eat through any container and seep into the groundwater of a soul. Revenge...
It’s never good when a tree screams.
You always think everything is so easy, Royce replied, wiping his eyes.I'm just a glass-half-full kinda guy. How's your glass looking these days?I have no idea. I'm still trying to get over the sheer...
Myron took the moment to sit down on the stone bench behind him and whispered to Hadrian, You were right. Life outside the abbey is much more exciting than books.
Long is the day in the summertime,long is the song which I play,I will keep your memory in my heart,till you come to me…
Time to die, you fat cow!
Sometimes the price of dreams is achieving them
Royce decided to try to reason with Hadrian. Would you rather they find out and send a detachment to hunt us down?No, I just hate being the cause of an innocent man’s death.No one is innocent, my frie...