But a living is not a life.
It's too late to apologize for I have already forgiven you." -FitzChivalry Farseer
You can't play in shit and not get some on you.
We’d had a message from Just, the first to reach us in many a month. He and Hearth had left home almost three years ago. With youth’s fine disregard for the concerns of their elders, they’d sent messa...
Well. Who wouldn't break? I broke. You broke.''And we both emerged stronger.''We both emerged', I modified his words.
Time is an unkind teacher, delivering lessons that we learn far too late for them to be useful. Years after I could have benefited from them, the insights come to me.
This is a day for things to break, he thought. My heart. The fellowship of the folk who had come here together. We all move apart from one another today.
There is a saying from the Southlands that there is truth in wine. There must be a bit of it in ale, also.
The separate parts of my life became like beads and I the string that ran through them all. I believe if I had ever paused to consider the intricacy of all I did to keep those parts separate, I would...
That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise...
Take all self-determination from a man’s life, and all that is left for him to do is complain.
Surrendering that pain to stone had deadened me in a way that was a relief, but there was a darker side to that forgetting. I’ve seen folk who numbed their pain with strong drink or Smoke or other her...
Sometimes it seems unfair that events so old can reach forward through the years, sinking claws into one's life and twisting all that follows it. Yet perhaps that is the ultimate justice: we are the s...
Since then, she had wondered if it were strength or a sort of madness that let her pretend she was normal.
She could be shaped by her past without being trapped by itp. 283
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...
Only my pain is more silent than my anger.
One must plan for the future and anticipate the future without fearing the future.
One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.
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...