She found that their company revived her, carried her away from the constant presence of last night's terror, little by little, till she could begin to look back on it as something that had happened,...
Pride kept her from confiding in the other girls, and caution kept her from confessing to the older women.
Only what is mortal bears life, Arren. Only in death is there rebirth. The Balance is not a stillness. it is a movement--an eternal becoming.
Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky.
On the blank leaf glued to the inner back cover I drew the double curve within the circle, and blacked the yin half of the symbol, then pushed it back to my companion. ‘Do you know that sign?’He looke...
No need to try to find it, said Unroy. The sacredness is there. In the truth, the pain, the beauty. So that the telling of it is sacred.
Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new. When
Justice, mercy, does Mars care for them?
Judgement is poverty.
It takes a while to spoil a world, but it can be done.
In diversity is life and where there's life there's hope, was the general sum of his creed, a modest one to be sure.
If women had power what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who can?
I went to the springs while the sun was still up, and sitting on a rocky outcrop above the cave mouth I watched the light grow reddish across the misty pools, and listened to the troubled voice of the...
I think we shall have trouble learning how to lie, having for so long practiced the art of going round and round the truth without ever lying about it, or reaching it either.
I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.
He looked at me. His firm, broad face showed weight-loss in deep shadows under the cheekbones, his eyes were sunken and his mouth sorely chapped and cracked. God knows what I looked like, when he look...
Having one king, one god, one belief, they can act single-mindedly.
Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light? This sorcery is not a game we play for pleasure or for praise. Think of this: that every word, every act of our Art is said...
Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it.
Felicidade tem a ver com a razão, só pode ser conquistada pela razão. O que ganhei foi uma coisa que não se pode conquistar, não se pode manter e, muitas vezes, não se pode nem reconhecer no momento;...