The world would find them anyway. It was good at these kinds of games.
I have to say, old friend, you were supposed to help train her, not drop her off a cliff.
People think I know a lot about women. The truth is, I know how to get them, how to make them laugh, how to make them interested. I don’t know how to keep them.” He hesitated. “I really want to keep this one.
Nearly everything that happened had happened before. The grand lesson of history.
For nothing is truly complete until the day it is finally destroyed.
For the substance of our existence is not in the achievement, but in the method.
Sometimes, people only seem determined upon one course because they have been offered no other options.
When men perceive the world as being right, we are content. But if we see a hole – a deficiency – we scramble to fill it.
Surround yourself with people too afraid to speak, and you left yourself to only your own ideas. That could be disastrous. It was important to have men who would question you and see flaws in your plans, so long as you could control them. It was all about control.
Megan’s eyes could have drilled holes through butter.
To Szeth’s people, a dying request was sacred.
Remember why we live. Remember warmth, remember good food. Remember friends, and song, and evenings spent around the hearth.
Don’t try to stop yourself from feeling. You’ll hate who you become.
To be given loyalty is to be infused like a gemstone, to be granted the frightful license to destroy not only one’s self, but all within one’s care.
They didn’t speak as the sun slowly sank before them. Why was it most colorful when it was about to vanish for the night? Was it angry at being forced belong the horizon? Or was it a showman, giving a performance before retiring?
Put two men together, and they will find something to argue about. Gather them into groups, and one group will find reason to oppress or attack another.
They were the lowest in the army, and yet they bore the weight of kings.
Don’t just act because you can; act because it’s the right thing to do. If you keep that in mind, you’ll be all right.
It strikes me that religion – in its essence – seeks to take natural events and ascribe supernatural causes to them. I, however, seek to take supernatural events and find the natural meanings behind them. Perhaps that is the final dividing line between science and religion. Opposite sides of a card.
A good king is one who is trusted by his people- and one who deserves that trust.