You always think everything is so easy,” Royce replied, wiping his eyes.”I’m just a glass-half-full kinda guy. How’s your glass looking these days?””I have no idea. I’m still trying to get over the sheer size...

When you are so ashamed of your actions, thoughts, or intentions, you lie rather than accepting yourself for who you really are—or, in this case, pretend something happened when it didn’t. The idea of how...

I suffer a loss and people console me. Royce suffers a loss and whole towns evacuate.

Verily, for nine hundred years have I lost. Everyone I knew is dead, the empire gone, and who knows in what state the world is left. Should what thy sister reports prove true, much hath...

What’s the advantage of fear or the benefit of regret or the bonus of granting misery a foothold even if death is embracing you? My old abbot used to say, “Life is only precious if...

If this hast been done to language, I fear to know the fate of all else.

Always remember that the tales of another are never as wondrous as your own.

I tried to find a way to go on. I could see familiar traces of the path that was my life, but there was always the wall behind me. Do you know what I mean?...

Nobles with competent fathers perhaps. I spent my formative years at my aunt’s at Huffington Manor. She held a daily salon, where a dozen noble ladies came to discuss all manner of philosophical topics, like...

Damn his elven ears,” Magnus said.

Sharks don’t eat seafood because they like it, but because chicken can’t swim.

She’s dead, and there’s nothing you can do. The monster cannot be harmed by your weapons. It—”The two were out the door.

Revenge is a bittersweet fruit that leaves the foul aftertaste of regret.

And I wish to thank you as well, Royce.”He was puzzled. “For what?” “For reminding me that anyone, no matter what they’ve done, can find redemption if they seek it.

What can I say? I’m a glass-half-full kinda guy.

One truth doesn’t refute another. Truth doesn’t lie in the object, but in how we see it.

How can you regret never having found true love? That’s like saying you regret not being born a genius. People don’t have control over such things. It either happens or it doesn’t. It’s a gift...

Sometimes the price of dreams is achieving them.

bad guy” anymore, he’s the BAD GUY!

We may indeed die here, that’s true. But we will all die anyway-is there any denying that? When you think of all the possible ways you might go, this is as fine a place as...

Was there ever any drink in that glass?

The thing about the old is that we never change so much as the young. We slip in degrees, adding rings like trees–a new wrinkle here, a shade less color there, but the young transform...