We can rebuild. We can’t resurrect.” I.
My kith and kin have long since vanished into time –.
If the pupil was worthy to be trained, there came a time when the master must allow the pupil to train himself, to use and become all that the master had seen in him, fulfilling his true potential.
They didn’t have to be true to be good.
You look like you’ve swallowed a live fish, and you’re not certain if you’re enjoying the experience.
Don’t you see, Stef? It’s not that I’m serving Valdemar, it’s that I’m helping to preserve the kind of people who leave the world better than they found it, and trying to stop the ones who take instead of giving.
She would never truly be her own woman if she allowed fear and old memories to dictate where she would or would not go.
Platitudes might satisfy for a short time, father – but soon or late, the people will realize they are being fed form without substance. What I tell them must be the truth, and I must believe it, and I must hold to it.
The willpower to do anything would come, the songs and writings said, if the motive was pure.
Ain’t necessarily ’bout bein’ the ‘right one’ so much as it is bein’ the one that’s there an’ willin’.
It seems to me that evil is a kind of ultimate greed, a greed that is so all-encompassing that it can’t ever see anything lovely, rare, or precious without wanting to possess it. A greed so total if it can’t possess these things, it will destroy them rather than chance that someone else might have them. And a greed so intense that even having these things never causes it to lessen one iota – the lovely, the rare, and the precious never affect it except to make it want them.
Why, you mean you didn’t get abducted and dragged across country purely to make us a story for us to chew over endlessly?” asked Pip, tossing his shock of tow-colored hair indignantly. “The nerve!
Now you’re just being stubborn, and I am not going to sit here and tell you what you already know, when you know you know it, and I know you know it, and you know that I know you know it.:.
One never bothers to think about growing old as one is growing older. Then suddenly it is there, looming in your face.
Sometimes, it seemed, the business of a Witch or a Godmother was not so much using magic as knowing when not to use it.
He is an excellent fellow, but he has one deep flaw. He cannot cook. In fact, he has been known to ruin boiling water.: Mags.
Love now–a good, solid love is something infinitely rarer and more difficult to maintain, because you don’t know everything your partner is feeling. Love takes work. Love means being able to apologize and mean it when you blunder. Love is worth fighting for!
Love is as much trust as it is devotion.
I’m getting too old to hit attractive men over the head and carry them off. And the sad part is, I’m so old that’s the only way I can get them!
I’m tired of being alone, and fighting my battles alone.