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Looked a bit better, but her pain was still evident on her face. I watched

In your conceit and aggression, you wage wars and slay one another over the lines you have imagined on the world's face.

Die in your dreams, wake up insane.

I sleep like an old woman now, she thought to herself. In fits and starts. It isn't sleeping and it isn't waking and it isn't rest.

It is difficult to insult the man you don't speak to.

There would always be dishonorable things done to preserve the honor of any power.

Dragons don't bother with introductions.

There is no such thing as an extraordinary coincidence. There is only destiny.

It was possible to be homesick for a time, and to be lonely for the only other person who could recall it.

It is hard to write down a story that has no sequence or sense, let alone make a picture of what my dream showed me.

What does who call me when?

The world had to change and for some reason the prosperity of men always results in them taking ever more from wild creatures and places.

It is a heady thing to be suddenly proclaimed the center of someone's world,

I do not know whom I wish to win; until I do, I will let no player be eliminated.

I actually think that short stories transfer to film much better than novels do.

A small pebble can turn a wheel out of its path, he told me, but warned me that it was seldom a pleasant experience for the pebble.

Her anger was hard for me to bear, but weeping would have been worse."
p. 513

My brother! Nighteyes greeted me joyously.

Acceptance of what is. That is the shortest path to peace with yourself.

Diplomacy may very well be the art of manipulating secrets. What would any negotiation come to, were not there secrets to either share or withhold?

I flew, I hunted, I killed. I am SINTARA!

Is time the wheel that turns, or the track it leaves behind?

Wait for you? Not likely. I've always had to run ahead of you and show you the way.

The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will

She could be shaped by her past without being trapped by it"
p. 283

He gave a final shake of his coat. I go to the hunt!

Do not pull back from the pain and imagine that makes you strong. Look at it, you dolt! It is trying to tell you what is wrong so you can fix it.

Death does not conquer. It threatens, but it cannot subdue the future. What must be, will be.

I know you think me foolish, but then, I am the Fool. You know then I must be Foolish.

Very little about being a writer is signing an autograph. It's sitting in a room and writing. Getting it out.

I was amazed at how strong women were when they were angry.

That no man can truly imagine being happy and that's why happiness isn't for sale here.

And for that rush of fury? Time. Time passing with no one trying to hurt you or kill you will lessen that reaction.

It's a poor teacher who tries to instruct by blows and threats.

A leaf turns in the wind, and you suddenly have a different perception of what colour it is.

So many things were easier to live with if you didn't give them much thought.
p. 28

There is always power in holding a secret.

If I gave Bee to Riddle and Nettle, I could undertake the Fool's vengeance. That traitorous thought made me want to vomit.

Fitz, you are angry. I can feel it like storm waves lashing my shores.

And the world re-ordered itself around me. I spoke each word carefully. 'You are so stupid.

Well. Who wouldn't break? I broke. You broke.'

'And we both emerged stronger.'

'We both emerged', I modified his words.

baffled at how he had released her.

Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.

Cats themselves may be very chatty, but they seem to resent it in anyone else. Cats like listeners.

The man who worries about what will next be happening to him loses this moment in dread of the next, and poisons the next with pre-judgement.

You are confusing plumbing and love again.

But a living is not a life.

Fish?
No fish. Sorry.
"Sorry" is not fish. What good is "sorry"?

Open your eyes. This horrible mess is your life. There is no sense in waiting for it to get better. Stop putting it off and live it.

For the weakest has but to try his strength to find it, and then he shall be strong.

Amber?" he said pleadingly. His voice went high on her name and broke, as it sometimes did when he was afraid. "Are you taking my beads away?

It was, after all, a time for heroes and all sorts of marvelous things to occur.

Everything she sang was true. I will leave it to you as to whether the truth can exist with details omitted, or if those lacks make a lie of it.

When you see me loyal to my family, then you see the wolf.

How much do you understand?' I demanded of her one afternoon. She cocked her head at me, met my gaze and demanded, 'How much do YOU understand?

Better to regret unsaid words than repent of words I could never call back. Who

We were one thing. Whole.

It is an odd language, yours. You speak of passing time as in the Mountains we speak of passing wind. As if it were a thing to be gotten rid of.

The greatest danger is always the one we are ignorant of.

Sometimes," he observed obliquely, "you have to trust people to understand you are not perfect.""

"p. 267: Chade to Fitz

One man armed with the right word may do what an army of swordsmen cannot.

THE HEIR OF NIGHT by Helen Lowe is a richly told tale of strange magic, dark treachery and conflicting loyalties, set in a well realized world.

Town too late for Springfest. There'd

You imagine the worst, and when you do, your mind stops at the problem and does not consider the solution.

When settled people look for security, they look for continuity." Here

She held his hand and did not look down nor back.

Oh, and you accuse me of flattery! Here I waddle about like a fat old duck and you try to tell me I'm lovely.

Passed through fire and plunged through salt water and offered to the winds of the air; thus were names sealed to these chosen children.

The ship's knowledge extended to navigation, to the handling of weather and awareness of necessary maintenance.

A fierce resolve that we would not lose what we had now to what we could not have tomorrow.

To every creature is given both a place and a time, and when that time is over, we have to let them go.

Young as I was, I still wondered what kind of man this was who, with one leg bandaged, could quell a room full of rough men with a look or a word.

We are the sum of all we have done added to the sum of all that has been done to us.

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.

Time is an unkind teacher, delivering lessons that we learn far too late for them to be useful.

Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.

Every small, unselfish action nudges the world into a better path. An accumulation of small acts can change the world.

Those were some astounding lies, cub. And the very last one the most inspired of all. You have your father's talent for it.

It is the nature of human that we tend to pass our pain along. As if we could get rid of it by inflicting an equal hurt on someone else.

I think that my passion for writing fantasy began at about the same time as my passion for reading fantasy.

There are moments that change the course of one's lifetime, and often we don't realize how significant those initial may be until years pass.

I told you it was foolish. But feelings do not have to be wise. Feelings just are.

I had moved on to another life. I could not expect the old one to be held ajar for me forever.

I think it was always okay to be a geek.

Some things may be learned from words on a page, but some skills are learned first by a man's hands and heart, and later by his head.

Cats talk to whomever they please.

My silences he mistook for a lack of wit rather than a lack of any need to speak.

The loneliness that can never be filled by anyone except the one whose loss created the absence;

Death could make things stop, but it could not make things right.

The sheer improbability of your existence took my breath away.

Love can exist without need

There is a saying from the Southlands that there is truth in wine. There must be a bit of it in ale, also.

A wise old man taught me that diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power. Persuasion, not force, works best and lasts longest.

He lives day-to-day now, just as we do, fumbling forward down the path to the future.

Cats do not enjoy being reminded of debts.
Cats don not incur in debts.

Perhaps once one realised how deeply one could bond with a creature as foreign as a dragon, all forms of human love seemed more acceptable.

Take all self-determination from a man's life, and all that is left for him to do is complain.

Oh, the power that lurks in the naming of names.

In politics, appearance matters more than truth.

Opinions may have truth in them but that truth must be free of opinions.