Boys, I decided, simply have a given amount of rudeness they must express.
All cats talk however they want. To whomever they want. But only a rude human speaks out of turn. Be quiet.
A wise old man taught me that diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power. Persuasion, not force, works best and lasts longest.
The greatest danger is always the one we are ignorant of.
The fight isn’t over until you’ve won.
Sometimes luck belongs to children and madmen.
Shall. I think I finally guessed then what
Perspicacious
Many men always see another’s good fortune as a slight to themselves.
In your conceit and aggression, you wage wars and slay one another over the lines you have imagined on the world’s face.
An Elderling named Sedric was raising the child with Carson.
You’re always somewhere else. You never do the music where you are.p. 462 Thick to Fitz
Your future. It awaits only you, to live it and to write it.
You'll do well, if you don't mire in self-pity. Self-pity only gets you more of the same. Don't waste time on it.
You know what I feel for you. You have known it for years. Let us not, you and I, alone here, pretend that you don’t. You know I love you. I always have. I always will
You can deny it. But I have been with you, in every way that matters. As you have been with me. We’ve shared our thoughts and our food, bound each other’s wounds, slept close when the warmth of our bo...
Yet, all things must pass, but especially time, and with the months and then the years, I came slowly to have a place in the scheme of things.
Why, I suddenly wondered, had I wasted all those hours I could have spent with her? Why hadn’t I gone with them, to listen to a bedtime story or nursery song?
What you are born to be, you will be, whether it be priest or sailor. So step up and be it. Let them do nothing to you. Be the one who shapes yourself. Be who you are, and eventually all will have to...
What a man can take with a sword, a woman can give by her flesh alone. Life.