A woman of many talents. And intelligent, too. He’d probably have to kill her soon.
Men of passion and vision are often seen as mad.
Perhaps having the courage to find a better path is having the courage to risk making new mistakes.
For, “Yes,” he had sighed on his dying breath, and all knew that was the ultimate prayer one could offer to life.
Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?
Your future. It awaits only you, to live it and to write it. – Shaman’s Crossing by Robin Hobb.
I think that old magic draws much of its strength from that acknowledgment: that we are a part of that world.
Love isn’t just about feeling sure of the other person, knowing what he would give up for you. It’s knowing with certainty what you are willing to surrender for his sake. Make no mistake; each partner gives up something. Individual dreams are surrendered for a shared one.
There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.
For the weakest has but to try his strength to find it, and then he shall be strong.
I healed. Not completely. A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding.
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.
How do you politely explain to someone that you had believed for years he was a moron as well as a Fool? Fitz in Assassin’s Apprentice.
No. This is right. I feel it. I am the Catalyst, and I came to change all things. Prophets become warriors, dragons hunt as wolves. Fitz in Assassin’s Quest.
The biggest doubts come in the five minutes after I hit send.
What a man can take with a sword, a woman can give by her flesh alone. Life.
It’s all connected. When you save any part of the world, you’ve saved the whole world. In fact, that’s the only way it can be done.
You are confusing plumbing and love again.
Locked into loneliness were we two and looking at one another every evening we each saw the one we blamed for it.
Don’t listen to people who tell you that very few people get published and you won’t be one of them. Don’t listen to your friend who says you are better that Tolkien and don’t have to try any more. Keep writing, keep faith in the idea that you have unique stories to tell, and tell them.