If a man hits you once, he’ll hit you again, they say. And the same is true for lying. But I stayed, and I listened and I believed. What a fool I’ve been!
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...
If I gave Bee to Riddle and Nettle, I could undertake the Fool’s vengeance. That traitorous thought made me want to vomit.
If I enter the room as you are fastening your shoe, I can say, There will be a lovely moon tonight, and then you will call it to mind. But before I call it forth for you, you have forgotten the moon....
I wondered if there was any way to live amongst other people and refuse to be harnessed by their expectations and dependencies.
I will always take your part, Bee. Right or wrong. That is why you must always take care to be right,
I was lonely, and the lonely heart has hungers that can overpower both common sense and dignity.
I tried to comfort him. I tried to tell him it might be chance, not destiny, that has put him here. Do you know what he said?That there is no chance, only destiny.Her hands paused. How did you know?It...
I tried a last time. When you want a thing so badly for so long, and then it comes time to face that you cannot have it, sometimes—
I think I made a better boy than I do a man, I admitted ruefully to the wolf. Why not wait until you've been at it a bit longer and then decide? he suggested.
I stood for a time, overlooking the calm sea. Under the bright morning sun, it looked like hammered blue metal. A very light breeze came off it and stirred my hair. I felt as if someone had spoken wor...
I passed that day in pleasure, which is to say, in the sort of work I wanted to do rather than the work that I thought I ought to be doing.
I loved that man as I have loved no one else. I do not say I loved him more than I love your mother. But that the way I loved him was different. But if you have heard there was anything improper in ou...
I healed. Not completely. A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding.
I have since come to know that many men always see another’s good fortune as a slight to themselves
I floated. I had been part of something immense, but now I was torn loose. Broken away from the great purpose that had used me as a conduit. Useless. Again.
I felt a familiar squeezing in what I thought must be my heart. I had heard of being heartbroken or heavy-hearted but I had never known it was an actual sensation one felt when the whole world abandon...
I don’t need to be a hero, Fool. I’d settle for feeling that what I did every day had significance to someone besides myself.p. 144 Fitz to the Fool
I do not know whom I wish to win; until I do, I will let no player be eliminated.
I can take all my pasts, keep them and determine my own future. I don't have to be what anyone made me, Brashen. I can be Paragon.