We aren't fated to survive, then at least let us fight it to the end. Let it be fate that extinguishes us, not our own lack of heart.
Tinha andado a manter um silêncio amuado para com ele, esperando avidamente que me perguntasse que bicho me tinha mordido. O problema era que ele não o fazia. Haverá alguma coisa mais provocadora do q...
They spoke of a dream of a child who bore the heart of a wolf.
They need other people to make them think they’re alive. They only feel like they’re important if someone else tells them they are.
There is power in the keeping of a secret, and power in the revelation of a secret. Sometimes it takes very wise man to discern which is the path to greater power.
Then in general charge of the pack beasts and wagon animals. But it wasn’t just work he taught me. Cleanliness. Honesty. He put a value on what my mother and grandmother had tried to instill in me so...
Ten times dead was very dead indeed.
Such a storm of emotions as humans can evoke, all on the basis of imagination, the dragon observed condescendingly. In a more reflective voice she asked, Do you do this because you live such short liv...
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. Then you will find the Now, the time that stretche...
Sometimes thanking someone is more important to the person giving the thanks than the one who receives it.
Something killed them. Long ago. I don’t know exactly what. Some great cataclysm of the earth, that buried whole cities in a matter of days. It sank the coast, drowning harbour towns, and changed the...
Six Wisemen came to Jhaampe-townClimbed a hill, and never came down Found their flesh and lost their skinsFlew away on stony wings. Five Wisemen came to Jhaampe-townWalked a road not up nor down Were...
Our own ambitions and tasks that we set for ourselves, the framework we attempt to impose upon the world, is no more than a shadow of a tree cast across the snow. It will change as the sun moves, be s...
Once she would have found him mysterious and alluring. She had grown wiser. Dangerous men were neither romantic nor exotic; they were men who could hurt you.
My perception of my life crashed from high tragedy to juvenile self-pity in a matter of moments.
Learning is never wrong. Even learning how to kill isn't wrong. Or right. It's just a thing to learn, a thing I can teach you. That's all.
It’s all a trick,’ he observed. ‘All a rotten trick men play on themselves. They get together and they create this beautiful thing and then they stand back and say, See, we have souls and insight and...
If a few students come reluctantly to their studies, then let them go. If all students come reluctantly to their studies, then let your scribe be dismissed and find another. For once students have bee...
I remember that dress. It is quite old, isn’t it? Didn’t you wear it to one of the parties you gave to announce Keffria’s wedding to Kyle? It takes years off your face. You must be quite proud to be a...
I have since come to know that many men always see another’s good fortune as a slight to themselves