Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?
We cannot protect anyone from being alive, Master Bosha. No matter how much we might wish to.
Pen wanted to ask if becoming a sorcerer made a man more, or less, attractive as a husband, but he had an uneasy feeling that he could guess.
Talking to the gods had been a much more comfortable proposition when there had seemed no danger of Their talking back.
And then his world turned into a pelting rain of flaming snot.
Where I come from, someone’s head in a bag is generally considered the best revenge.
Reminding him that the daylight was the illusion, the scattering of light by the atmosphere, and the endless night was the permanent default behind it all.
I believe,” she said slowly at last, “that the tormented are very close to God. I’m sorry, Sergeant.” He.
I’m not in a hurry,” the woman said. Patience for her vengeance dripped like vitriol from her voice; even Tich was quelled.
Ethan thought he understood how a propaganda-stuffed young soldier must feel the first time in combat, stumbling by some sudden chance over his enemy’s human face. He had gloried for a red moment in his power to break her. Now he stood foolishly with the pieces in his hands. Not at all heroic.
It was Ivan’s morning duty to open each box, identify the species, vigor, mood, and fang-count of the writhing things inside, and sort them by genuine urgency.
Military intelligence was as nothing to military stupidity.
Lady Peace is the first hostage taken when economic discomfort rises.
My Lord, we wish to resign.” Her smile, confusingly, crept wider, as if she just said something delightful.
I gather from the pattern of her flinches that the late unlamented Tien Vorsoisson was one of those subtle feral parasites who leave their mates scratching their heads and asking, Am I crazy? Am I crazy?
The will to be stupid is a very powerful force –.
Some attitudes couldn’t be changed, they just had to be outlived.
Well, he’s his god’s problem now. Don’t promote your troubles beyond your rank.” “That is actually theologically sound advice.
So in the physics of the heart, distance is relative; it’s time that’s absolute.
Once you had delegated the best people to do a job for you, you had to trust both them and your judgment. What.