You imagine the worst, and when you do, your mind stops at the problem and does not consider the solution.
Refusing to think about a thing only brings it more strongly to mind.
Young as I was, I still wondered what kind of man this was who, with one leg bandaged, could quell a room full of rough men with a look or a word.
Truth can well out of a man like blood from a wound, and it can be just as disconcerting to look at.
Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. Amber looked out to sea again. And no less. Sometimes folk wish tomorrow did not pay them off so completely.
To finally confront the worst there is, to look it squarely in the face and say, I know you. You have hurt me, almost to death, but still I live. And I will go on living.
This is our last hunt, old wolf. And as we have always done, we go to it together.
They do as we do, my dear. They take what joy they may find in life as they can. As you well know that Skelly has run off to do tonight, also. The shadows of harsh times creep over us. For in a battle...
The truth doesn’t need you to recognize it, young man, for it to be so. You need the truth to recognize you.
The sheer improbability of your existence took my breath away.
The fight isn't over until you win it, Fitz. That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man says.
The art of diplomacy is the luck of knowing more of your rival's secrets than he knows of yours.
That most ancient of magics, the binding of a man by the use of his name, gripped him.
That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.
Starling lowered her voice, but it carried anyway. He is FitzChivalry, son of Chivalry the Abdicated. And you are the Fool.Once, perhaps, I was the Fool. It is common knowledge here in Jhaampe. But no...
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...
Sometimes all the choices are poor ones, Fool, and still a man must choose.
Someday is someday, and maybe it will be or maybe it won’t. This is a human thing, to worry about things that may or may not come to be. You can’t eat the meat until you’ve killed it.
So this was our adventure. And the prince and the princess get married and live happily ever after, with many children to warm the in their old age.'He had probably heard that phrase thousands of time...
Silent, the carved wizardwood on his wrist breathed. Silent as a blinded ship, floating hull-up in the sea. Silent as a scream underwater.