Being ignorant is truly bliss compared to being misinformed, especially if you’re aware of the depths of your own ignorance.
It was hard, to be stripped of the cold comforts of her simple atheistic faith in middle-age. The more so as the evidence seemed to lead to the conclusion that the religions were true, including the...
If wisdom was easy any fool would be able to do it.
. . you should always kick a man when he's down. It's much easier then.
The only
Clan custom and law held that it was the public declaration of intent and then living together that made a handfasting; the ceremonies simply bore witness to it and asked blessings and luck of the Pow...
Be as you wish to seem, an ancient had said. It was good advice. Because acting brave and being so are very much the same thing.
Wryly:
What was it Da said? Órlaith thought grimly. Yes, that it’s a great pity that fighting evil starts with killing evil’s conscripted farmers.
Be your own judge. But commit no trespass, remembering that where another's liberty begins your own inevitably meets its boundary.
Ah, well, old girl, remember the definition of an Anglo-Saxon: A German who's forgotten his grandmother was Welsh.
From that valley near the Tetons, over past the Wind River
Wholly homelike was the wedge of apple pie with whipped cream, and a piece of yellow cheese beside it, sharp and dry and crumbly, just right to cut the rich sweetness of the pie filling and the butter...
Who dares, wins, he muttered to himself. Or gets royally banged about if things go south.
It doesn't stop being magic because you can you explain it, Father.
I really know the implications, and you don’t. We’re not talking about a better breed of catapults or . . . or D&D hit levels.
He was of the Old Religion, like nearly all Mackenzies, and wouldn't object to a Catholic ceremony - his faith taught that all paths to the Divine were valid. Christians tended to be a little more exc...
Grief is the tribute we pay the dead, she said, matter-of-fact sympathy in her voice. But they don't ask more than we can afford to give. They've never really gone from us, you know, those we love; th...
Because in this life everything, absolutely everything, is either a challenge or a reward,
Dropped the idea of writing professionally and focused on earning a living. I’m fairly sure that was the wrong decision.