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...
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.
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 truth doesn’t need you to recognize it, young man, for it to be so. You need the truth to recognize you.
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...
It's a fine day for a prayer. But then, most days are.''That's what you were doing? Praying?' At his nod, I asked, 'For what do you petition the gods?'He raised his brows. 'Petition?''Isn't that what...
It would be ironic,' I panted to Burrich and Dutiful, 'if after all these years of longing to die, he finally perished in an attempt to live.'Burrich snorted. 'We all perish in our last attempt to liv...
It was, after all, a time for heroes and all sorts of marvelous things to occur.
I was very tired of being hit, but it seemed like the one thing I did well lately.
I think there is in the heart of a man a place made for wonder. It sleeps inside, awaiting fulfillment. All one’s life, one gathers treasures to fill it. Sometimes they are tiny glistening jewels: a f...
I suddenly wished to go back, to have again each separate day to spend. Time. I was trapped in it, fenced into a tiny piece of now that was the only time I could influence. All the soons and tomorrows...
I made a sudden decision. and my dog has followed me from town and cought up with us here. I left him with friends, but he must have chewed his rope. here, boy, come to heel. I'll chew your heel off f...
I don't think I can stand it much longer, he warned her. Something will have to give way. And I fear it will be me… I've just been living from day to day. Waiting for something or someone else to chan...
I could set aside my responsibilities to others and live my life as I pleased only when I also severed my ties to them. I could not have it both ways. To be part of a family, or any community, is to h...
I could not help but see the hand of the balancer in all of this. Could hatred and determination be a counterweight to organization and experience? I suddenly understood something about the old god of...
I am quite safe, I assure you. But, even if I were not, I have the habits of a lifetime to protect me. And Lacey. Lacey? I could not keep incredulity from my voice nor a grin from my face. I turned to...
He shook his head slowly. I am not the person I was born. Neither are you. I know no one who is. Truly, Fitz, all we ever know are facets of one another. Perhaps we feel as if we know one another well...
He leaned forward, eyes gleaming with enthusiasm. As he spoke, he lifted the kettle from the oil flame and poured steaming water into the cup and a bowl. Ginger and cinnamon wafted toward me. All of t...
For wolves, as for dogs, life is a briefer thing than for men, if you measure it by counting days and how many turns of a season one sees. But in two years, a cub wolf does all a man does in a score....
For there is a very strange peace in giving over your judgment to someone else, to saying to them, You lead and I will follow, and I will trust entirely that you will not lead me to death or harm.