There is a hand behind every curtain,′ ” she quoted. “ ‘And a knife in every hand,’ ” finished Mara.
I love a question I can’t answer. It keeps things interesting, even after so many years.
I just pray I don’t have to work on you some day. Stitching together flesh that has no soul is bitter work.
He likes to humble our foes by making them seem ridiculous. As he said to me the other day, ‘Kill a man, and you cede him honor in the eyes of the gods. Laugh at him and you shame him’.
It is something only a few know in their lives. It is a vision of something so clear, so true, it can only be a madness. You see what life is worth, and you know what death means.
Love doesn’t demand; it accepts.” Mara to Kamilo.
Whatever displeasure she felt was openly voiced, and quickly resolved, by either compromise or one partner’s acceptance of the other’s intractability.
There was nothing left to fear. He would endure or he wouldn’t.
Find where the sound ends and silence begins. Then exist in that moment, for there will you find your secret centre of being, the perfect place of peace within yourself.
You will have to make decisions far worse. You are going to have to learn to think before you act, but never to regret your decisions, right or wrong. Otherwise, you will slowly begin to not make decisions at all.
Informants can be helpful, but they are never infallible. All tools can break, or be turned into weapons.
Now go. An actor should know when to leave the stage, a poet when the lay is finished, and a bard when it is time to put aside the lute.
You must define yourself, for no one else has the wisdom to do it for you.
One time is much like another to death. She comes when she will. So why give over your mind to worry?
Father used to say that, among man’s strange undertakings, war stood clearly forth as the strangest.
He considered the importance of what he was to do, and calmed himself. He felt the dragon’s mood and acknowledged it. It was a willingness to accept whatever fate brought, but without a resignation to defeat. Death might come, but with it might also come victory.
Tell them this: somehow our two worlds stand linked again by some dark power of Tsurani origin. It moves against the Kingdom. It is power beyond human understanding, perhaps power to challenge the gods themselves.
One of the problems with being my age is you look at everyone who is younger as children, and when everyone else around you is younger, it means you live in a universe of children. So you tend to scold more than is proper.
Still, few things of worth are ever simple. Or easy.
Luck is when those who are prepared take advantage of the moment.