One man armed with the right word may do what an army of swordsmen cannot. —
One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.
Oh, the power that lurks in the naming of names.
Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.
Nothing is really lost. Shapes change. But it’s never completely gone.
No being gets to decide what his life is 'supposed to be.' She lifted her eyes and her gaze stabbed him. Be a man. Discover where you are now, and go on from there, making the best of things. Accept...
Nenhum inimigo, bem sabia, é mais temível do que aquele que ferimos gravemente.
My mother had told me to never be afraid to apologize when I was wrong. She had said it would have saved her and my father a great deal of trouble if they had only followed that rule. Then she had sig...
Love is more than bedding, boy. If love doesn't come first and linger after, if love can't wait and endure disappointment and separation, then it's not love. Love doesn't require bedding to make it tr...
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 is the way of the young to accept the debilitations of old age very gracefully on behalf of their elderly parents. And
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 it was raining soup, you’d be out there with a fork.
If all I had ever done was to be born and discovered, I would have left a mark across all the land for all time. I grew up fatherless and motherless in a court where all recognized me as a catalyst. A...
I wondered if there was any way to live amongst other people and refuse to be harnessed by their expectations and dependencies.
I was lonely, and a lonely heart has hungers that can overpower both common sense and dignity.
I need a friend, and I have none to whom I can admit my weakness, my fear, my errors.
Housework was comforting. In cleaning and restoring a room, one could assert control. One could even pretend, briefly, that life could be tidied the same way.
Her stillness was such a contrast to all the jumbled communication inside me that I suddenly felt what a tiresome fellow I was, always filling the air with the rattle of words and anxieties.
Having something explained to you does not always solve it.