Why’re you like that? the boy persisted.Like what? Paragon finally asked in annoyance.Ya’know. Allus mad. Or crazy fightin’ Say’n stuff ta be mean.How else do you expect me to be? Paragon retorted. Jo...
When you fear to fail, you fear something that has not happened yet. You predict your own failure, and by inaction, lock yourself into it.
We didn't have to share a mind to share a heart.
Utter loneliness was planted in me then, and sent its deep roots down into me.
Too much on my mind. Too many directions to think in all at once. I sometimes feel that if I had time to focus my mind on just one problem, I could solve it. And then go on to solve the others. Every...
To every creature is given both a place and a time, and when that time is over, we have to let them go.
This terrible event – whatever it was – is over and done. Cling to it and let it shape you and you are doomed to live it forever. You are granting it power over you. Set it aside, and shape your futur...
They also found the cocooned dragons. They had no idea that was what they were, of course. They thought … who knows what they thought at first? Perhaps they seemed like massive sections of tree trunks...
There is nothing dishonorable about abandoning pain. Sometimes peace is most quickly found when a man simply stops avoiding it. He shifted slightly in the dark. And you never again lay awake all night...
There is no more slippery task than to refrain from thinking of something.
There are moments that change the course of one's lifetime, and often we don't realize how significant those initial may be until years pass.
Then as now he created reality around himself, bringing order and peace to a small island of warm firelight and the simple smell of hearth bread cooking.
The white prophet Gerda was barely twenty when she set out into the world to find her Catalyst. She had dreamed of her often since she was an infant. She travelled far from the peaceful green lands of...
The puppet dances, He turns flips and he jigs. His painted red smile looks happy but he is screaming, for he performs on red-hot coals. His wooden feet begin to smoke. A man comes in with a shining ax...
The more I studied the accounts of others, both written and told, the more it seemed to me that we attempt such histories not to preserve knowledge, but to fix the past in a settled way. Like a flower...
The fight isn’t over until you win it, Fitz. That’s all you have to remember. No matter what the other man thinks. Or the horse.
That isn't how I see it, Amber. That isn't how I see it at all. It's just my life, and now that I have finally discovered what I must have to be happy, I'm willing to lay down my life for it. That's a...
That is the challenge, Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it, instead of being trapped by it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is...
Something clamped tight inside her suddenly eased. He had been right. She did not have to grip her pain. She could let it go. The memory was still there. It had not vanished, but it had changed. It wa...
Probeer dit rijk te regeren, en het zal je tot slaaf maken,' fluisterde een geest van de Wilde Regenlanden in mijn oor. 'Word er deel van, en je gaat een nieuw leven tegemoet.