In a calm, clear voice, she suggested that the wyrsa in question could do several highly improbable, athletically difficult and possibly biologically impractical things involving its own mother, a few household implements, and a dead...

To treat a person like a carpet, it is necessary that one do the walking, and one allow himself to be walked on.–Shin’a’in saying

Once the blinders are off, it’s rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to.

Well, we could have just given him a horse and sent him on his way, but… Ancaladar ate the horse.

I try to use all of my senses when describing a setting, and try to think of everything that would impact a character in any given scene.

Certainly no one has ever died of an unrequited passion—it’s usually the ones that are requited that get people in trouble.

There’s always going to be fighting. People of honor have to be a part of that, because if they aren’t, the only ones fighting will be the ones who don’t care, who have no honor,...

Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becomes, the harder they hold to it, and the worse the things they are willing to do to support it.

So her safe little world would never be safe again… She knew that the nurturing hand also held the knife, and that was very unsettling.

Witch’ is just a religion, okay? No baby-sacrificing, no Black Masses, no sending imps out to scare the dog-snot out of kids, trying to make them think they’re crazy. We don’t do things like that....

(From the Author Note at the beginning of the book.) Dorothy L. Sayers used to say that mystery stories were the only moral fiction of the modern world–because in a mystery, you were guaranteed to...

It makes sense for people who are good at fighting to go out and do it-because if they’re good at it, that means the fewest number of other people die.

If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.

Evil working in subtler fashion; marriages that proved to be no more then legalized slavery, and the careful manipulation of a bright and sensitive mind until its owner truly believed with all her heart in...

There’s no such thing as `one, true way’; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself; leave the world better than you found it. Love, freedom, and the chance to do...

…Though drowned was just as dead as any other way of dying.

Genius will only take you to ‘good.’ Practice will take you to ‘Master.

Truth and trust are the means by which civilization holds off barbarism.

Peri went to the window, gesturing out at the dragons, perched and flying, everywhere. “Safe, true, but how boring! How confining! How sad! How could that compare with this? And what is safe? You were...

[Harrier] locked eyes with Zanattar. He couldn’t remember another time in his life when he’d been this angry and hadn’t hit something.

Why should you find a mind attractive enough to put up with a crippled, aging body? I’m half again your age-why is it that when we’re talking you make me feel no age at all?...

I’m not out to disturb anybody’s faith. I happen to be happy and comfortable with a belief system that has a dual deity and operates on a lunar schedule. It suits my needs. If you...

Van, Van, we’re only simple, fallible mortals – we aren’t saints, we aren’t angels – we fall on our faces and make errors and sometimes people die of them – sometimes people we love dearly...

Keth, power brings with it the need to make moral judgments; history proves that. You have no choice but to make those decisions.

Then he heard a wild, high-pitched cackling that made the hair stand up on the back of his neck. It wasn’t sane, that laugh. In fact, it was the laughter of someone who never had...

Ree-” Grey barked into the icy silence. “Lax!”The word spat so unexpectedly into her ear had precisely the effect Grey must have intended. It shocked Nan for a split second into a state of not-thinking,...

Time doesn’t. All that Time does is make it more distant, put more space between you and what happened. It doesn’t heal anything. I don’t know how or what does the healing, but it isn’t...

Give your enemy a face, If he is human, do not dehumanize him. Know him and know why he is your enemy. If your enemy is within you, understand what it is and why you...

And that is this; which way do you want them sliced—lengthwise, or widthwise?

I think I know why you never married, Sarah.””Well, and I reckoned if I wanted something that’d come and go as he pleased, take me for granted, and ignore me when he chose, I’d get...

You look like you’ve swallowed a live fish, and you’re not certain if you’re enjoying the experience.

Adventure, yeah. I guess that’s what you call it when everybody comes back alive.

If they projected the fact that they are dangerous any harder, there would be little puddles of “danger” on the floor around them. Look, it’s “danger”, don’t step in it!

How could we have been afraid of her? She was only dead. It’s the living we fear.

It’s only gossip if you repeat it. Until then, it’s gathering information.

I have no place in my life for someone who is sure he can do everything.

I’m not a legend or a hero, I don’t slay dragons, I don’t do any of the things that a real hero can. But I can make things better, one day at a time, for...

Nevertheless, now that I have met you, I know that all that I am, and all that I have, could not match what you are worth.

If it is stupid but it works, it isn’t stupid. (a Shin’a’in saying)

She would never truly be her own woman if she allowed fear and old memories to dictate where she would or would not go.

Among the dragons, the prohibition against asking direct questions did not exist, and-as Harrier discovered immediately-dragons were even more outrageous gossips than sailors.

Teach what you know, regardless of when you have learned it — teach what you learned yesterday sagely, as if you have known it all your life, and teach what you have known for decades...

…for a country whose people ceased to believe in magic soon lost much of their ability to imagine and dream, and before long, they ceased to believe–or hope– for anything.

We’re none of us quite so sure of our place in the world that we can’t be rocked off our feet by bad times. It’s the getting back up again that counts. Not that you...

Jett Gallatin expected trouble in Alsop, Texas—but not zombies.

Some must be warriors, that others may live in peace.

Magic, like technology, is a tool.

like balancing on a rooftree while screaming an epic poem in a foreign language at the top of your lungs.

Bir şeyleri dışarı atıp kapıyı kilitlediğinde, aslında kendini içeri kilitlemiş oluyorsun.

Not forgiving someone is like not pulling a thorn out of your foot just because you weren’t the one to put it there.