Fish? No fish. Sorry. Sorry is not fish. What good is sorry?
Few things have such sharp edges as the careless words of a boy.
Don’t do what you can’t undo, until you’ve considered what you can’t do once you’ve done it.
Did you see how she stood and faced them down? I demanded with pride. A most excellent bitch, Nighteyes agreed.
Cats talk to whomever they please.
Be very chary of telling your hoarded secrets. Many lose all power once they have been divulged. Be even more careful of sharing your own secrets lest you find yourself a puppet dancing on someone els...
Any future can be! she replied, laughing at me. If it were not so, if it were fixed, it would be a past. You say a foolish thing. How can a future be impossible?
A while later, I lingered in the hinterlands of sleep. Sometimes I think there is more rest in that place between wakefulness and sleep than there is in true sleep. The mind walks in the twilight of b...
A leaf turns in the wind, and you suddenly have a different perception of what colour it is.
To free humanity of time. For time is the great enslaver of us all. Time that ages us, time that limits us. Think how often you have wished to have more time for something, or wished you could go back...
Finally realizing that life was to be lived, rather than hoarded against an unseen tomorrow.
I don't knowWhen a man says that, it usually means, No, I won't but from time to time, I'll toy with the idea, so I can pretend i eventually intend to do it.
In your conceit and aggression, you wage wars and slay one another over the lines you have imagined on the world’s face.
You’re always somewhere else. You never do the music where you are.p. 462 Thick to Fitz
Young, Chade suggested. Young and full of righteous fury. Hurt and heartbroken, I suggested. So tired of being thwarted. Tired of being bound by rules that no one else had to follow.
You earn your future, Malta Vestrit. The bead-maker cocked her head at her. What does tomorrow owe you? Tomorrow owes me? Malta repeated in confusion.Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No m...
You always chose to be bound by who you are. Now choose to be freed by who you are.
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 had Althea's crazed words affected Etta like this? Then the answer came to him: she was pregnant. Women always behaved strangely when they were pregnant.
Why can't people love one another and still remain free? Althea demanded suddenly.Amber paused to rub her eyes, then tug thoughtfully at her earring. One can love that way, she conceded regretfully. B...