Feelings don’t have to be wise, they just are.
Keeping a child from harm is not the same as rearing one.
There was always something to be learned from any experience, no matter how horrendous. As long as a man kept sight of that, his spirit could prevail against anything. It was only when one gave in and believed the universe to be nothing more than a chaotic collection of unfortunate or cruel events that one’s spirit could be crushed.
It is my way, to speak directly. I do not mean to give offense by it. It has always seemed to me that honest words leave the least room for misunderstanding.
She knew, with vast certainty, that she would never desire to be kissed by a man who had first asked her permission.
Choose a place to take a stand. Not where they can corner you but not where they can surround you, either. Find a weapon, a stick, a rock, anything. If you cannot escape, make them pay as dearly as you can for capturing you. Fight them all the way.
The world had to change and for some reason the prosperity of men always results in them taking ever more from wild creatures and places.
Everything she sang was true. I will leave it to you as to whether the truth can exist with details omitted, or if those lacks make a lie of it.
If he ever wanted vengeance on me for all I did, he has it now. This is the worst thing he could do to me. Now I know how it feels to be left behind. As I left him.
We will discover the truth. And face it. And whatever it is, we will go after them. And we will kill them all, like the bastards we are.
There are times when not thinking requires all of one’s concentration.
Isn’t it strange how wise counsel can cool the hottest head? He made sense but my heart screamed protest.
Althea had never known that misery could achieve perfection. Only now, as she sat staring at her emptied glass, did she grasp how completely wrong her world had become. Things had been bad before, things had been flawed, but it was only today that she had made one stupid decision after another until everything was as completely wrong as it could possibly be.
Oh, the power that lurks in the naming of names.
Not every problem in the world belongs to you.
In my opinion, men deny animals have feelings and thoughts for one basic reason: so they won’t feel guilty about what they do to them. But.
When the mainstay of one’s world is taken away, it’s only natural to cling to all the rest, to try desperately to keep things as close to the way they were as one can.” He shook his head sorrowfully. “But no one can ever go back to yesterday.
It is hard to write down a story that has no sequence or sense, let alone make a picture of what my dream showed me.
The exercise for centering oneself is a simple one. Stop thinking of what you intend to do. Stop thinking of what you have just done. Then, stop thinking that you have stopped thinking of those things. Then you will find the Now, the time that stretches eternal, and is really the only time there is. Then, in that place, you will finally have time to be yourself.
As you will, King Fitz.