Both ends of Wains were blocked by fallen rock and earth, but in the middle it was clean as a crucible. Everything dry and tight as you please. No damp. No mold. No drafts to bring in dust. Altogether men or no, it was a seemly place, so Auri was careful to comport herself with full decorum. There were twelve oak doors lining the hall. All fine and tight and bound in brass. Over her long years in the Underthing, Auri had opened three of them.
If you’d known how difficult it was, you never would have stood a chance of doing it.
Rumor forces us to act before we are ready, or ruins a situation before it becomes fully ripe.
This was nothing,” I said nonchalantly. “Once I jumped off a roof.
They fight like puppies. They are young, and boys. They are full of anger and impatience. Women have less trouble with these things. It’s part of what makes us better fighters.
My fear is, what is the larger effect of my book on the world and on the minds of the people who take the time to consume it? Am I contributing in a positive way to the overall kind of collective consciousness of people in the world? I worry about that.
You see, a laurel needs rain to grow. I can’t do much about that. But I can keep that rain off a few musician’s heads, can’t I?” A sly smile wound its way onto his face. “So God will tend the laurels and keep them wet. And I will tend the players and keep them dry. And wiser minds than mine will decide when to bring the two together.
This isn’t the hand of some swooning princess who sits tatting lace and waiting for some prince to save her. This is the hand of a woman who would climb a rope of her own hair to freedom, or kill a captor ogre in his sleep. And this is the hand of a woman who would have made it through the fire on her own if I hadn’t been there. Singed perhaps, but safe.
Como ya he dicho, existe una gran diferencia entre ser valiente y no tener miedo.
So when I meet a woman, I should simply say, ‘You are beautiful?’” Tempi shook his head. “No. You would say simply ‘beautiful,’ and let the woman decide the rest of what you mean.
She’s stolen his tongue as well as his heart. All his words are for her. He can spare none for us.
No matter where she stood, she was in the center of the room.
To really fear something you have to dwell on it.
But most of our time was spent telling stories. We had so little in common that stories were all that we could share.
She did not dare let it behind her, all unseen. Unseemly. All unseamed.
The smaller you are, the more bravery means.
These poor, rich men who, seeing that you can’t be caught, attempt to buy a thing they know cannot be bought.
I am telling you three times.
I closed my mouth and looked across the water. Inches away, Denna did the same. I could feel the heat of her. She smelled like road dust, and honey, and the smell the air holds seconds before a heavy summer rain.
Things are more easily seen from edges. Danger rouses the sleeping mind. It makes some things clear.