Janny Wurts Quotes

How much suffering did you lay on yourself before you awakened and recognized that guilt is deadly, and empty, and profitless?

Let her own shortfalls, and not your vindictive perfectionism, be the quality that throws her to destruction.

The miracle left him dumbfounded, that his heart had not yet shirked its weary task of pumping his bored blood through his brain.

You always did like to run things, never mind your crafty knack for making everyone believe that somebody else was in charge.

Against such odds, I will stand or fall! Whether or not I can rise to surmount the trials before me, I plan to step forward and fight.

Show me a hero and I'll show you a man enslaved by his competence.

Doubt packs more damage, kept secret.

You can't let your past write the future

Mage-taught wisdom reproached him: any gift of power was two-edged.

You don't have to like a man to respect him.

The rebuke came, keen-edged. 'Trusting the man is not the same thing as knowing what he's about.

No driven man hears unwanted counsel.

Speak for yourself. Only rank ignorance measures a man by appearances.

But a parcel of walled soil does not make the heart of a ruler or define the nobility of a people!

A man wreaks harm because he forgets to love peace. He kills because of self-blinded fear, that imagines no other protection.

This is my present, also yours, free to choose. I am here at your side, alive, and no ghost. Let beauty and care forge the weapons tonight.

Some gifts of friendship cannot be earned, no matter how hard we try to live up to them.

There is no terror so powerful as the one never faced.

Does vengeance or blame ease the sorrow of heart-ache? We all make mistakes. Life can't be lived without harm to others.

I would sooner converse with a snake!" He side-stepped the clutter.
"Speak and have done. Even snakes prefer their choice of company.

Because you've survived, there is a next strategy.

You cannot trust yourself,' she agreed, bed-rock calm. 'Therefore, let go. Seize life and place trust in me.

Truth, of itself, does not kill.

Mockery is the sure mark of the cynic, unredeemed and cut off from salvation.

I trust you," she murmured through urgency. "Completely. Without end, and before the beginning.

I pity the man who can't cry.

There are many reasons to avoid taking risks. Friendship is not among them.

I shall try. At best, I am human. No less subject than any to mortal limits and fallible resource.

Prophets are dastardly pessimists, to a man.

Hate has no ears.

An act made in fear is not the same thing as an action taken for necessity.

There are no victims, now. While we survive, for as long as we love, our future is yet to be written.

Since you refused the good grace to die on delivery, Rathain has got a living prince.

There's a choice?"
"Always. It's the outcome that sadly limits things.

Never get old. It's a ridiculously uncomfortable process Ath Creator should be made to find a cure for.

I always listen," the duke said, annoyed. "Just hang your silly, unnatural notion, that hearing means following your orders.

You know, that's the trouble with drinking. Come the morning, you can never remember their names.

What is a flaw but a human mistake, or an ignorance that sees without options?

Is my love so small that I cannot let him discover anew what happiness life has to offer?

I say human beings have purposeful brains beyond acting like flocks of scared pigeons.

But hope always kindles through striving.

An illusion threatens no one with harm. Neither can it be dispelled by armed force.

Sithaer's dark furies," Dakar swore. "Why do I stay with you?"
"For maudlin entertainment, no doubt.

It's tragic how the lack of imagination so often shapes our defeat.

Death has no repeal. It is a brute ending that leaves us the legacy of an inscrutable silence. Therefore, I understand the voice of mercy very well.

How often ignorance stings less than knowledge.

You are not mine to command. But the choice to kill always means closing the mind to the chance of a living alternative.

Done without love, any congress between man and woman degrades the creative intelligence that graces your humanity.