He remembered how his father had told him that when it snowed even humans could see the wind, and it was so. He watched as gusty eddies danced and flickered, a single flake pausing for a moment to hov...
Seconds slowed and passed before Nicholas's mind's eye like a parade of snails upon the garden path.
Yes, said Talon, his voice the hiss of a coiled serpent.
I wonder if those who live here get used to this beauty.Undoubtedly, Magnificence. It is the nature of man to become oblivious to that which is around him daily,
It was an interesting dilemma and with all such dilemmas an opportunity might emerge. 'How best to turn this setback into an advantage,' he wondered silently.
Well, he thought, dwelling on past failures once you'd learned all there was to learn was just heaping futility on failure.
You've learned something very young, Prince, something that even older men rarely understand. You've learned that fear isn't a terrible-looking thing but something lovely and seductive.
Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.
What is he?’ ‘What would you have him be?
Men love their fears. That is why they hold on to them so tightly.
From our birth we are all dying, but some of us finish sooner than others.
In Tsurani culture, forgiveness was simply a less shameful form of weakness than capitulation.
There is no magic, only tricks.
The trick to not being discovered until it is too late is to become part of the expected surroundings. Stealth is more the art of blending in with the background than sneaking through dark shadows.
He likes to humble our foes by making them seem ridiculous. As he said to me the other day, ‘Kill a man, and you cede him honor in the eyes of the gods. Laugh at him and you shame him'.
History is written by victors, said Duko. But I have little use for history. It is the future with which I am concerned.
Luck is when those who are prepared take advantage of the moment.
Boys... You're all idiots - Carlaine
You can be as sharp-tongued as a viper, but you can also be as sweet as wild clover honey.
One of the problems with being my age is you look at everyone who is younger as children, and when everyone else around you is younger, it means you live in a universe of children. So you tend to scol...