You’re starting to sound a lot like my mother.” “Captivating?” Syl said. “Amazing, witty, meaningful?” “Repetitive.” “Captivating?” Syl said. “Amazing, witty, meaningful?” “Very funny.
Sometimes we must fall, sometimes we will rise – some must be hurt while others have fortune, for that is the only way we can learn to rely on one another. As one is blessed, it is his privilege to help those whose lives are not as easy. Unity comes from strife, child.
Without the glowing fruit, the place was as black as the inside of a can of black paint that had also been painted black.
Some people – like a festering finger or a leg shattered beyond repair – just needed to be removed.
Her personal studies proved that crime went down when people had a sense of identity with and ownership of their community.
But you’ll always find people telling stories about supposedly better days. You watch. A man joins a new team of soldiers, and the first thing he’ll do is talk about how wonderful his old team was. We remember the good times and the bad ones, forgetting that most times are neither good nor bad. They just are.” He.
Harmony protect us from small-minded men with too much power.
Oh,” Obliteration continued, “I think that you’ll find a man can do many things thought impossible, if he tries hard enough.
I have found, through painful experience, that the most important step a person can take is always the next one.
Laws are of men, Kaladin. Nature doesn’t have them!
That’s where we belong, not in those caverns. The kids who make fun of you, they’re trapped on this rock. Their heads are heads of rock, their hearts set upon rock. Set your sights on something higher. Something more grand.
Several pieces of me are very interested in gardening,” I said. “I just didn’t bring them along.
If nothing changed, nothing would ever come to exist.
Is it gonna take my breath now,” Mizzy asked, “or, like, sometime down the road? I’d like to be prepared.
The comment quieted the room, like a sudden shout of “Who wants extra bacon?” at a bar mitzvah.
All life worked in concert, he’d been taught in his youth. Everything but men, who refused their place. Who destroyed instead of added.
The day of heroes has passed,” Uncle Edwarn said. “The stories of people breaking out of history belong to another world. We have reached an era of modernism, both louder and more silent at the same time. You watch. Where once kings and warriors shaped the world, now quiet men in offices will do the same – and do it far, far more effectively.
Well, I didn’t wanna kill someone in cold blood – ” “That’s good, I suppose.” “ – but there weren’t no fire around to light her with first.
Sarene laughed wryly. “You love me, Father – no parent wants to admit that is daughter is unattractive. The truth of the matter is, no man wants an intelligent wife.
A man doesn’t have to like his duty. He just has to do it.” She.