Sometimes it is easier to pull a knife out of a man than to ask him to forget words you have uttered.
So. Which of our troubles torments you most this evening?Althea surrendered. They all nip at my heels like a pack of yapping feists, ship. I don’t know which to worry about first. The figurehead gave...
Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one.
She fell silent, overcome at what humans, in their ignorance, had done.
Shame is not a good emotion for a man to feel. It makes him angry as often as it makes him sorry.
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.
No man is so dangerous as the man who cannot decide what he fears.
Never do what you can’t undo until you’ve considered well what you can’t do once you’ve done it.
I have been in howling storms in which a shout is reduced to a whisper, moved across the sea’s featureless face in a gray fog that does not yield to human eyes.
Changes were the essence of life; one should not dread change.
As if he hadn't always known he was loved the best. That he was the Beloved.
And to die with the Warrior's Prayer on his lips. For, 'Yes', he had sighed on his dying breath, and all knew that was the ultimate prayer one could offer to life. Acceptance.
Understanding how or why is seldom as useful as understanding that things are.
Too many folk, women and men, love the person they wish to be, as if by loving that person, or being loved by that person, they could attain the importance they long for.
They spoke of a dream of a child who bore the heart of a wolf.
The fire of my burning past sent odd shadows snaking ahead of us as we made our way into the storm’s resurgence.
The Six Duchies would fall. The world would end. We went to fetch blankets.
Ten times dead was very dead indeed.
So, with all the wide world to choose from, you didn't choose at all. You simply stopped wandering one day
Refuse 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 of...