You cannot sacrifice the world for your children.
Being a martyr is highly overrated.
No-pocket jeans are only slightly less irritating than thong underwear.
I suppose we must work on being gracious and grateful until we can do for ourselves. Someday the wheel of fate will put us in a position to be of use to them, and we will remember how much easier it is to give help than it is to accept it.
Charles could care less about shoes – and he suspected he wasn’t alone among men in his feelings. Shoe, no shoe, he didn’t care. Naked was good, though over the past couple of weeks he was beginning to think that dressed in his clothes was a decent second best.
Bran was the only person I knew who could use words like “blackguard” and make them sound like swear words-but then he could have said “bunny rabbit” in that tone of voice and weaken my spine with the same shiver of fear.
Things change whether you want them to, or not – unless you are dead. Don’t hold so hard to the past that you die with it.
Not that I’d really been planning on keeping the attack secret; it had just been an option I’d wanted to keep open if I could.
I used my history degree about twice a year whether I needed to or not.
Wizards are a secretive lot.
If there was such evil in the world, was it possible that there was good, too?
Time was such an odd thing. One moment you could talk to someone, then suddenly, they were gone.
Baking is like washing – the results are equally temporary.
My father said that a silent person is trying to hide something.
My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man’s speech.
The main thing to remember is that making love is at onces the silliest and the most sacred act humans can perform.
Truth is without flourishes or manners and runs with a logic all its own.
Mine. He was mine, and not even death would take him from me – not if I could help it.
Knowing someone desires you is the greatest aphrodisiac.
But that was the trouble with ancient artifacts – no one really knew what they did.