Se tudo o que eu tivesse feito na vida fosse ter nascido e ser descoberto, ainda assim teria deixado uma marca em toda aquela terra, para todo sempre. Cresci sem pai nem mãe, numa corte onde todos me...
Perhaps having the courage to find a better path is having the courage to risk making new mistakes.
One cannot be dashed to the earth unless one is lifted first, and I learned to avoid hope.
One can swiftly understand that for most moments of our lives, we have forgotten almost all of the world around us, except for what currently claims our interest.
Once a person had realized death, if they could turn aside from pain they immediately turned toward wonder and Sa. It took both steps, Wintrow knew that. If a person had not accepted death as a realit...
Oh, the things we discover and the things we learn, much too late. Worse are the secrets that are not secrets, the sorrows we live with but do not admit to one another.
Not every problem in the world belongs to you.
No man can return to being a boy. But there are interludes in a man’s life when, for a time, he can recapture the feeling that the world is a forgiving place and that he is immortal.
Look at her. The sun soaks right int her and shines back out of her. She’s magnificent.
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 my fault,’ I confessed to her. ‘Oh, Fitz, always you are …’ She bit back whatever it was she had started to say. More gently she added, ‘No one blames you.’ ‘I blame me.’ ‘Of course you do,’...
It was all in your mind, Chade told me sometime later, and it stung that he dismissed so lightly all that I had endured. All of life, I wanted to tell him, is in our minds. Where else does it take pla...
It is an odd language, yours. You speak of passing time as in the Mountains we speak of passing wind. As if it were a thing to be gotten rid of.
In that last dance of chancesI shall partner you no more.I shall watch another turn youAs you move across the floor.In that last dance of chancesWhen I bid your life goodbyeI will hope she treats you...
In politics, appearance matters more than truth.
If you don’t decide what you will do with the rest of your life, someone else will decide it for you.
If we aren't fated to survive, then at least let us fight it to the end. Let it be fate that extinguishes us, not our own lack of heart.
If a man does not die of a wound, then it heals in some fashion, and so it is with loss.
I wasn’t being fair to expect those things of him. But life wasn’t fair. Life does not wait for any of us to grow up.
I was sick of strife, and weary of being wary.