She stood in one smooth motion, surprisingly pale where the sun not touch her, slender and hard-muscled, yet with roundnesses and softnesses that haunted his dreams.
Its time to role the dice.
The weak must be bold cautiously.
In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes. That’s enough for anyone to know.
They want to own the world, but it seems you already own a people.
I figured that once you’ve decided to jump off a cliff, you might as well pick the highest one. Why accept the risk, if not for the greatest prize?
I will hate the man you choose because he isn’t me, and love him if he makes you smile.
If you don’t know everything, you must go on with what you do know.
Storms rumble beyond the horizon, and the fires of heaven purge the earth. There is no salvation without destruction, no hope this side of death.
Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction and even in a good deal of mystery, these things are presented as simply two sides of the same coin. Never really more than a matter of where you happen to be standing.
You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyway.
When you wish for so long that you could hear something, and then suddenly, with no warning, you do, it is like a lightning strike and rain on parched ground at the same time. You’re stunned, but you cannot hear enough.
Take what you can have. Rejoice in what you can save, and do not mourn your loses for too long.
If you pursue two hares, both will escape you.
We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.
Why, that’s like being told to go up in the hills to find lions, only you do not know whether there are any lions, but if there are, they may be hunting you, and they may be disguised as bushes. Oh, and if you find any lions, try not to let them eat you before you can tell where they are. -Elayne.
Reading is like breathing. If you take it away, first I become antsy, then violent.
What you want is what you cannot have. What you cannot have is what you want.
She’s not for you, nor you for her; at least, not in the way you both want.
Love is an odd thing. As odd a thing as there is.