Is it the nature of the world that all things seek a rhythm, and in that rhythm a sort o peace?
That was Verity's way. MOnths had passed since we had last spoken but he took no times for greetings. Chade said it was a lack in him, that he didn't make his men feel their importance to him. I think...
Leave that. Leave all that and join us here. There is no loneliness, no separation at all. No aching bones, no worn-out bodies. It's not what they told us, Fitz! All those warnings and dire prediction...
Perhaps there can be no thanks nor any blame, but only recognition of the forces that brought us and bound us to our inevitable fates.
Night eyes had risen and stretched stiffly. Now he came to lie down beside me. He set his head on my knee. 'I don't understand. You are ill?''No. Just stupid.''Ah. Nothing new there. Well, you haven't...
One way to disperse fear and create decision was to consider the worst possible outcome of one's actions.
Life is a balance. We tend to forget that as we go blithely from day to day. We eat and drink and sleep and assume that we will always rise up the next day, that meals and rest will always replenish u...
The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will.
I never confuse the cost of something with its value
I should live each day as if it were significant, as if everyday the fate of the world depended on my action.
As if he hadn't always known he was loved the best. That he was the Beloved.
No man is so dangerous as the man who cannot decide what he fears.
It is a heady thing to be suddenly proclaimed the center of someone’s world,
Silence asks the questions that are too awkward to phrase. It even asks the questions one does not know to ask.
I sleep like an old woman now, she thought to herself. In fits and starts. It isn’t sleeping and it isn’t waking and it isn’t rest.
When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities. Consider them all, boy.
The exercise for centering oneself is a simple one. Stop thinking of what you intend to do. Stop thinking of what you have just done. Then, stop thinking that you have stopped thinking of those things...
Refuse the anxiety. When you borrow trouble against what might be, you neglect the moment you have now to enjoy. The man who worries about what will next be happening to him loses this moment in dread...
Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You can’t undo yesterday’s journey.
Surprise!-FitzChivalry
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