History is not our guide, it is not our friend. It is a passing stranger, one which shadows legend, sprinkling it with the seeds of truth.
He walked into the shadows of his rooms; walked into the darkness that no light penetrated.And there, under a halo of gentle red, she waited for him. In silence he stood, while the time drifted by. Da...
Stay, he said abruptly. Stay, feed me. Read to me, if you like. Do not talk to me of death. Do not offer me your fear. I have fear of my own to drive me, and if my own fear is not strong enough to kee...
She had managed to go almost three weeks without being late. Admittedly on two of those days she'd perambulated around the office like someone doing a good imitation of the walking dead - but she'd be...
Manners,[...] are severely underappreciated in my opinion.Oh?Where practiced well, they remove the probability that someone in my position will be forced to go through the effort of killing someone in...
Success and failure are two edges of the same blade, two sides of the same coin. To fear one is to forever deny the possibility of the other.
Lies were something you told other people to make things easier, somehow - hopefully, for them, but often more selfishly for yourself.
Erin!Hmmm?I’m talking to you!At me. She looped the sword around her hips and fastened the belt. To me is when I answer.
If there were no darkness, no Dark Heart, we—none of us—would exist. Try to see this when you walk in darkness. Try to forgive it, though you walk with light.
But this road, this road that I have walked, you, too, must walk, Sarillorn or no.What road, Lady?The road between Dark and Light. And you, of the Light, must take that path, knowing that light casts...
Truth, like beauty, is in the eyes of the beholder.
Can you hold off on the whole war thing until after I'm dead?
There were always people who struggled their way to the top of the heap, no matter how much that heap looked like garbage when seen from the outside.
It didn't matter. If she was to have any hope of saving Bellusdeo and Maggaron now, she needed to finish what she started; the anger and the self-recrimination would just have to wait. She'd no doubt...
Would it trouble you if I remained?No, she replied, around a mouthful of chicken.He took his accustomed seat to her left, but said nothing.Do you want any of this?No, he answered gravely. I do not nor...
Why will you not just accept what is? You have done as you will in my domain. I have exacted no price for actions that would be the death of any other.Why? I am your enemy here!
Remember that in change, no matter how strange or slight the chance, all hope lies.
If the Light and the Dark were so absolute, why couldn’t they give her absolute answers? Why did everything have to be so confused?
The end of the world is easy. We'll survive it, or we won't. But if we do survive, the rest of life is waiting.
Just what is going on here?Darin would have had a hard time imagining the plump, friendly woman he knew so well wearing such a frown. He tried to make himself smaller as he looked at the distance betw...