A book, you see, is the only kind of trap that keeps its captive—which is knowledge—alive forever.
No other bosses but mine and my opponents’ can have your soul jerked out of your body and sent to the deepest fiery pits to suffer for eternity. Unless you work for Walmart.
You were not required to study the Grail process, Ms. Dedoblanco, but I would have thought it worth your while. Wells frowned.
Why were men so caught up with their honor, their solemn word, their promises?Half the time the promises were never asked of them in the first place.And yet the wars that were fought over such things,...
What is it you want, fairy woman? he asked at last. I have dead men to burn and a siege to finish. Ayaminu
We call darkness our friend, but when the elders tell us stories of the Garden, they talk of the holy, unending light that was there. How did shadows become our only dwelling?
Sometimes you men are like lizards, sunning on the stones of a crumbled house, thinking: ‘what a nice basking-spot someone built for me.
It was frighteningly close to what he believed of his father at the worst moments - that he really was the kind of man who would send a letter signed Sincerely, Cpl. Peter Vilmos to someone he'd seen...
I pray that I lose my voice before my tongue ever shames me.
Even the king's Erkynguard might have wished to be elsewhere, rather than here on this killing ground where duty brought them and loyalty prisoned them. Only the mercenaries were here by choice. To Si...
But remember this lesson, Simon, one fit for kings... or the sons of kings. Nothing is without cost. There is a price to all power, and it is not always obvious.
Because love does not do sums, but instead make choices, and then gives its all.
As Simon sat looking at the words his newfound resolve was tested; he felt a wave wash through him, a staggering ocean breaker of remorse and fear, and a feeling of things that, though unseen, were no...
As I continued through the streets, through the smoke of the burnings and the rubble of the fires and explosions--for during the chaos of the quarantine parts of the city had become something like war...
Ah, yes. ‘‘Errors of caution are more likely to be considered at leisure than errors of boldness – but less likely to be considered after a victory.’’ In other words, if you are too careful, you are m...
A man whose wisdom is true does not sit in waiting for the world to come at him piece by piece for proving its existence!
You're pretty hard-boiled, Tinker Bell.-Call me that name again and you'll be wondering how your bollocks wound up lodged in your windpipe--from below. Just because we don't get to your side of things...
As for monkeys, I would have five, and they would be named: See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, Do Pretty Much Whatever The Hell You Want, and Expensive Attorney.
Some types of men, Simon, whose minds are very full of thoughts, they are forgetting to speak and act like normal men.
She floated in the midst of a living shadow. There was nothing but herself, surrounded by an unimaginable blackness. She could not think, not properly. She could only wait, while time or perhaps some...