What do you do to make up for failing everyone in your life? How do you make it right? How do you apologize for hideous things you never intended to happen?
For the good of the people, some must place themselves in harm’s way. Some must pledge their courage and their lives to protect the community.
You walk through the door and everything goes to hell.” “That’s embroidered on my towels, actually.
Bikers don’t wear all that leather around simply for the fashion value or possible felony assaults. It’s handy for keeping the highway from ripping the skin from your flesh should you wind up losing control of the bike and sliding along the asphalt for a while.
There are no words. It was like The Lord of the Rings and All My Children made a baby with the Macho Man Randy Savage and a Whac-A-Mole machine.
Life, Tavi reflected, seldom makes a gift of what one expects or plans for.
Vadderung grinned. “I’ve never heard it phrased quite like that, but it’s accurate enough. In any event, overcoming that inertia requires tremendous energy, will, and a measure of simple luck. If one wishes to alter the course of history, it’s a far simpler matter to attempt to shape the future.
How long do I have to take care of it?” I asked. “SOON.” “Soon? How soon is soon? What do you mean, soon?
Beards grow out so fast that if you shave every day, there isn’t much of a window for anyone to use them against you – and shaved stubble is too diffuse to make a decent channel anyway.
It was one of those moments that would have had dramatic music if my life were a movie, but instead I got a radio jingle for some kind of submarine sandwich place blaring over the store’s ambient stereo. The movie of my life must be really low-budget.
Love is patient. Love is kind. Love always forgives, trusts, supports, and endures. Love never fails. When every star in the heavens grows cold, and when silence lies once more on the face of the deep, three things will endure: faith, hope, and love.
Evil isn’t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it’s a hell of a lot more common. What we really need is a crusade against Stupid. That might actually make a difference.
My magic. That was at the heart of me. It was a manifestation of what I believed, what I lived. It came from my desire to see to it that someone stood between the darkness and the people it would devour.
Fire isn’t always an element of destruction. Classical alchemical doctrine teaches that it also has dominion over another province: change.
And I knew that there was some dark corner of me that would enjoy using magic for killing – and then long for more. That was black magic, and it was easy to use. Easy and fun. Like Legos.
Faith is about what you do. It’s about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It’s about making sacrifices for the good of others – even when there’s not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are.
Laughter, like love, has power to survive the worst things life has to offer. And to do it with style.
There’s always, always a choice. My options might really, truly suck, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a choice.
Honest. It’s almost always best to go with honest. It means you never have to worry about getting your story straight.
The movie of my life must be really low budget.