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, when one goes back to the scene of one’s childhood, things seem smaller. What was mysterious and the sole province of adults suddenly seems commonplace and mundane when viewed with mature e...
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...
Somehow, she said coldly, you have confused profitable and not profitable for right and wrong. I, however, have not.
She is dead. Dead so many years. Who could imagine that death lasts so much longer than life?
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...
One man armed with the right word may do what an army of swordsmen cannot. —
One cannot be dashed to the earth unless one is lifted first, and I learned to avoid hope.
Once one knows what heartless people can do, it cannot be entirely forgotten. It always remains among the possible things that can befall you.
Oh, I have known a few that did want to stop. And I have known a few that did stop. And it ended the same, whether they wanted to or not.
Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.
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.
La mort nous guette et elle est toujours assurée de sa prise. Il ne sert à rien d’y songer sans cesse, mais, dans nos entrailles dans nos os, nous savons tous qu’elle est là. Tous sauf les humains.
It’s not the kind of work a man does that says he can be proud or not. It’s how he does it.
It's all connected. When you save any part of the world, you've saved the whole world. In fact, that's the only way it can be done.
It was well to impress one's enemies with a show of strength. It was even better to be sure one's friends remembered it as well.
It is hard to write down a story that has no sequence or sense, let alone make a picture of what my dream showed me.
It doesn’t matter who a man’s father is. Your parents made a child, but it’s up to you to make the man you’ll be.
If the divine is also female, and the female also divine, then she understands that woman is more than mother, more than daughter, more than wife. Those are the facets of a full life, but no single fa...