Maulkin abruptly heaved himself out of his wallow with a wild thrash that left the atmosphere hanging thick with particles. Shreds of his shed skin floated with the sand and muck like the dangling rem...
King Shrewd is expecting me, rather he isn't expecting me, and that is precisely why I must go to him now.
He is very concerned with his dignity, and I think that prevents him from having an interesting life. If I were a boy, and permitted to have an interesting life, I would have no dignity at all.
Every small, unselfish action nudges the world into a better path. An accumulation of small acts can change the world.
Drink up your false courage and move forward. It’s the only direction a man can move in.
Chade, I know the Fool is strange. But I like it when he comes to talk to me. He speaks in riddles, and he insults me, and makes fun of me, and gives himself leave to tell me things he thinks I should...
But change proves that you are still alive. Change often measures our tolerance for folk different from ourselves. Can we accept their languages, their customs, their garments, and their foods into ou...
When you see me loyal to my family, then you see the wolf.
Too late to apologize, I've already forgiven you.
The betrayal of a friend differs from the treachery of a lover only in the degree of pain, not the kind.
Sometimes it seemed to me a cruelty that so much was unresolved between us; at other times, a blessing that a hope of reunion lingered.
None of us ever know what we are choosing when we choose life. If certainty is so important to you, than you should have chosen to be dead. That is a certain thing.
Men walking a battlefield to search for wounded among the dead will still stop to cough, to blow their noses, still lift their eyes to watch a V of geese in flight. I have seen farmers continue their...
Little brother, do not treat me as if I am already dead, or dying. If you see me that way, then I would rather truly be dead. You steal the now of my life away, when you constantly fear that tomorrow...
Justice. There's a thing we shall ever thirst after, and ever be parched. No. We content ourselves with law.
I told you it was foolish. But feelings do not have to be wise. Feelings just are.
Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?
Cruelty is a skill taught not only by example, but also by experience of it.
«—No todos los hombres están destinados a hacer grandes cosas —le recordé.—¿Estás seguro, Traspié? ¿Estás seguro de eso? ¿De qué sirve vivir la vida si no ha de suponer ninguna diferencia para el deve...
Too late to apologize. I have already forgiven you,