If any honor existed in war, it was in fighting to protect others from harm.
You must learn to see, what you are looking at.
Fame or infamy, either one is preferable to being forgotten when you have passed from this realm.
Are not all religions strange to those who stand outside of them?
Regardless of whether I can shift my affections to another – and the heart, as you observed, is a notoriously fickle beast – the question remains: should I?
Forgive me if I stare, I knew you were young, but even then I was expecting someone a little more, well, more.
Better to see widely than to see too closely and allow some feature of place or situation to catch you unawares. Do you understand?
May your swords stay sharp -Brom.
Misfoutune always comes to those who wait. The trick is to find happiness in the breif gaps between distaters.
He inclined his head ever so slightly, displaying with his bearing the supreme confidence, even arrogance, that is the sole providence of cats, dragons, and certain highborn women.
The best remedy for what ails me is being with you here under the sun.
Congratulations, you’ve just been promoted!
I need no master to punish me in order to behave as I ought. If I did, I would be no more than a child who obeys his father’s rules only because he fears the whip, and not because he actually means good.
The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true.
Moderation is a wiser policy than zealotry.
Anger is poison. You must purge it from your mind or else it will corrupt your better nature.
You must be willing to protect yourself and what you cherish, no matter what the cost.
Basically, I would be happy with any profession where I got to be creative and make things.
If I spent my time worrying about what other people would think of my work, I would be too self-conscious to write.
Fight if you wish. Deny what is before you if it comforts you. But nothing you do can change your fate.