Jek is too busy living. She won’t waste time on regrets.
You are different, Bee. It will make some parts of your life very difficult. But if you always fall back on your differences to explain everything you dislike about the world, you will fall into self-pity.
It’s a poor teacher who tries to instruct by blows and threats.
This is a day for things to break, he thought. My heart. The fellowship of the folk who had come here together. We all move apart from one another today.
Fault has no place in the greater scheme of things, little one. Fault and guilt are as useless as apology once the deed is done. Once the action has been taken, all must endure what follows.
Somewhere beneath the tides of those superficial emotions she knew the cold deep current of her grief sought to pull her down and drown her.
The weapon we throw away today is the one at our throats tomorrow.
I had read a poem about a girl with ‘silvery laughter’ but Shun’s sounded to me as if someone had fallen down a long flight of steps with a basket of cheap tin pans.
Maulkin abruptly heaved himself out of his wallow with a wild thrash that left the atmosphere hanging thick with particles. Shreds of his shed skin floated with the sand and muck like the dangling remnants of dreams when one awakes.
Reminding myself that these “servants” might be better born than myself, I treated them all with great courtesy and later wondered if that might not be the secret of the harmonious household, that all servants or royalty, be treated with the same courtesy.
My grandfather used to say, “Start out dealing with a man the way you intend to go on dealing with him.” I think the same may be true of dragons.
You’re not especially strong, or fast, or bright. Don’t think you are. But you’ll have the stubborness to wear down anyone stronger, or faster, or brighter than yourself.
I flew, I hunted, I killed. I am SINTARA!
A man can die of failure, Fitz. Do you know that? Once, I told you, the fight isn’t over until you’ve won.
And in that brief linking, I knew that the girl was dead.
I can teach you even if you hate me, or if you despise the lessons. I can teach you if you are bored, or lazy or stupid. But I can’t teach you if you’re afraid to speak to me. At least, not the way I want to teach you. And I can’t teach you if you decide this is something you’d rather not learn.
The carriageway to the front door was wide, and graceful white birches lined it. In autumn they shed a carpet of gold on the road, and in winter, burdened with snow, they arched over it, a frosted white tunnel paned with glimpses of blue sky.
But these things that had happened, and these feelings he now experienced were not faults to be conquered. He could not deny the feelings, nor should he try to change them. “Accept and grow,” he reminded himself, and felt the pain ease. Wintrow went to pack a change of clothes.
If ever you make it so they don’t need you, they will kill you.
Suspense was an excellent tool for keeping powerful people off balance. It gave one bargaining power.