We were speaking of people living their dreams, and I said that few do, and even fewer enjoy the experience. For too many, when they get their dream, they discover it is not what they wanted. Or the d...
When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all.
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 of the next, and po...
When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities.
Wolves have no kings.
Words do not contain or define any person. A heart can, if it is willing.
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.
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’re always somewhere else. You never do the music where you are.p. 462 Thick to Fitz
For some time. She’s long past her bearing years now. Nettle will be our only daughter.’ His face softened. ‘I’m sorry, Fitz. I’ve been told that nothing completes a man’s life in quite the way that c...
All I ever wanted to do was live my own life. And I’m having damn little success at that.p. 250: Brashen Trell and Amber
And that is what you would truly wish, little one? To stop being yourself, before you have even completed yourself? There is so much more you could grow to be.
Bee. Nothing happens to you. You happen to everything.
Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings?
But a living is not a life.
But a wall that will not yield to a battering ram can still be breached by the gentle twining of ivy.
But if she is alone now, it is because she chose to be alone, not someone decree if for her. Her life is hers to live, not yours to repair.
But that is not true for all folk. Some folk are meant to argue with fate. And win.
Death could make things stop, but it could not make things right.
Did you see how she stood and faced them down? I demanded with pride. A most excellent bitch, Nighteyes agreed.
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