Nor is there any special wisdom in injuring oneself over and over. What is your loyalty to that pain? To abandon it will not lessen you
I’ve thought of ending my life, Fool. I admit it. But always, no matter the damage to it, the body tries to go on. And if it manages to, then the mind follows it. Eventually,
It is my way, to speak directly. I do not mean to give offense by it. It has always seemed to me that honest words leave the least room for misunderstanding.
It is common for folk who are not Witted to think that those of us with Old Blood can talk to any animal. We can’t. The Wit is a mutual exchange, a sharing of thoughts. Some creatures are more open th...
I wince to think of the price willingly paid for loving me.
I was sick of strife, and weary of being wary.
I have known beauties and joys that tried my heart's strength as surely as the tragedies and uglinesses have
I can see that you go through life athwart it. You see the flow of events, you are able to tell how you could most easily fit yourself into it. But you dare to oppose it. And why? Simply because you l...
I am a minstrel. I know more about lying than you will ever discover. And minstrels know that sometimes lies are what a man needs most. In order to make a new truth of them.
His cracked lips moved.Beloved.He couldn't say the word, but I knew it.And so did his Fool.
Fitz, you are angry. I can feel it like storm waves lashing my shores.
Dragons. A sky full of dragons.
All of life, I wanted to tell him, is in our minds. Where else does it take place, where else do we add up what it means to us and subtract what we have lost? An event is just an event until some pers...
All cats talk however they want. To whomever they want. But only a rude human speaks out of turn. Be quiet.
Ah, Fitz, you should know by now that every moment of my life is spent dancing. And with every partner, I tread a different measure.
A man has to have a purpose in life. I know this now, but it took me the first score years of my life to learn it. In that I scarcely think myself unique.
Many men always see another’s good fortune as a slight to themselves.
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...