My blood will only buy you that fool's regard. I will pay a high price for you to be respected by a churl. Nothing bought with blood is worth having, young man.
Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.
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...
I was as foolish as I had ever been, no, even stupider, for the gullibility of a boy is fatuousness in a man.
Fault and guilt are as useless as apology once the deed is done. Once the action has been taken, all must endure what follows.
Fate rushes down upon us! The time drags and the days plod past, lulling us into thinking that the doom we fear will always so delay. Then, abruptly, the dark days we have all predicted are upon us, a...
Estamos aqui', respondi, e soltei uma gargalhada. Nunca pensara que a ira e o desespero pudessem fazer um homem rir.
E tudo porque eu fora demasiado tolo para ver que aquele que caminha sem saber por entre os segredos de um homem pode mesmo assim ter outros segredos seus.
Doing something stupid and reckless is not a better proof of your love than doing something measured and powerful.
Do you begrudge me that I am who I truly am? Should I pretend otherwise for the sake of pleasing you? If I did, it would be a lie. Would you rather love a lie than know me as I truly am?
Do not agonize about yesterday. Do not borrow tomorrow’s trouble. Let your heart hunt. Rest in the now.
Death does not conquer. It threatens, but it cannot subdue the future. What must be, will be.
Dawn, Thymara scoffed. I think the dragons meant, After we wake up and when we feel like it.
Coming up. A large tawny cat announced this to me at the same moment that he effortlessly elevated onto my lap. I stared at him in surprise.
Change often measures our tolerance for folk different from ourselves. Can we accept their languages, their customs, their garments, and their foods into our own lives? If we can, then we form bonds,...
But when all roads lead to death, there is no point to running down any of them.
Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.