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If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world. 
Though drowned was just as dead as any other way of dying. 
Love is as much trust as it is devotion 
when there's nothing to be done you might as well get some sleep, because when there is something to be done you're going to wish you'd had some." As 
Once the blinders are off, it's rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to. 
A quaint conceit, don't you think? 
Three things never anger or you'll not live for long;A wolf with cubs,
A man with power, And a woman's sense of wrong.
So, that's okay. It's not like you're turning into an Endarkened or something, like Kellen's evil stepbrother Anigrel the Black. 
It's easy for parents to pull the strings that make one dance ... after all, they are the ones who tied those strings in the first place 
a fistful of crayons or a few pots of 
The freedom to swing your fist ends at my nose. 
Make someone a devout, fanatical anything, and his brain turns to mulch. 
will integrate you into the 
Keth, power brings with it the need to make moral judgments; history proves that. You have no choice but to make those decisions. 
Townsfolk can get downright touchy over the occasional earth-elemental in the scullery. Can't imagine why ... 
Parents always know what strings control your heart and soul. After all, they are the ones who tied them there. 
He is an excellent fellow, but he has one deep flaw. He cannot cook. In fact, he has been known to ruin boiling water.: Mags 
Glorious Destinies get you Glorious Funerals. 
By such little victories are wars and hearts won, 
You don't spend most of your life in other people's heads without losing every prejudice you ever had. 
You are eccentric when you have enough money to not be considered crazy, 
And the nightmare-monster of her childhood revealed itself to be a thing of old clothes stuffed with straw. 
When they are seen as a type, and not as individuals, they are easy for a fanatical mind to grasp - and hate. 
It is only a fairy tale. They always end sadly. 
But no one can truly know how the game will play before the stones are laid upon the board 
Keep breathing. Exhale all the hurt and sorrow, inhale the untainted air. 
Three things never trust in- The maiden sworn as pure, The vows a king has given, And an ambush that is sure. 
Elves - You can't live with them and there's just no resale value. 
We're given a choice in our lives, to make things better, or worse, or merely endure like sheep. I choose to make things better, as much as I can. 
Evil done in the name of a Power of good is still evil. And good done in the name of a Power of evil is still good. 
You are speaking to a cat. If you do not believe this is magic, what do you think it is? She 
Cats. You can't live with them, and the fur's too thin for a rug. 
Zen Hugs - the hugs that you would get, if we were there, if we could hug you, but we aren't, and we can't. 
I'm so bad with people I can't even win an argument with myself. 
By Zeus's goolies, it's about time you got here! 
We can rebuild. We can't resurrect." I 
When warriors feel afraid they lack something, it is only because they are forgetful. They have forgotten how capable they truly are. 
Well, we could have just given him a horse and sent him on his way, but ... Ancaladar ate the horse. 
The hatched chick cannot go back to the shell, the falcon who has found the sky does not willingly sit the nest. 
It isn't wise to be rude to one's mother. She knows everything about your childhood that is potentially embarassing. 
Remember this always: to have something, sometimes you must be willing to lose it. Love must live free, jel'enedra. Love must ever live free. 
Certainly no one has ever died of an unrequited passion - it's usually the ones that are requited that get people in trouble. 
It's hard being a rock; they have such a strange sense of time - and priorities. 
I'm tired of being alone, and fighting my battles alone. 
It was Mags' turn to snort. But most on it is there ain't 'nough space for him an' his ego t' be in th' same room at th' same time. 
Sympathy can be addictive and can kill strong men as surely as a diet of nothing but sugar. 
Well," Clarice said, once the pirates were safely out of earshot. "Nobody shot us." "Yet," Dominick answered. 
Magic, like technology, is a tool. 
Of three things be wary- of a feather on a cat, The shepherd eating mutton, And a guardsman that is fat. 
She would never truly be her own woman if she allowed fear and old memories to dictate where she would or would not go. 
If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)
They didn't have to be true to be good. 
Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive. 
When you want something done, you ask a man. When you want it done quietly and without any fuss, you ask a woman. 
It is a hunger with me, books. I had rather read than eat, I do think. 
So her safe little world would never be safe again ... She knew that the nurturing hand also held the knife, and that was very unsettling. 
If you would rise, do so alone. 
Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you. 
Change or stagnate. Keep moving or die. 
Nevertheless, now that I have met you, I know that all that I am, and all that I have, could not match what you are worth. 
If you speak something's name too often, it might come looking for you. I 
Three things know a secret-First; the lady in a dream,
The dog that barks no warning,
And a maid that does not scream.
My parents can take themselves off on a scenic tour of hell before they tell me who my friends will be, Gan said pleasantly. 
Ain't necessarily 'bout bein' the 'right one' so much as it is bein' the one that's there an' willin'. 