Men cannot grieve as dogs do. But they grieve for many years.

Strange, how being left out of a secret always feels like a betrayal of trust.

Because your heart will be hammered against him, and your strength will be tempered in his fire.

The second thing you have to do to be a writer is to keep on writing. Don’t listen to people who tell you that very few people get published and you won’t be one of...

A while later, I lingered in the hinterlands of sleep. Sometimes I think there is more rest in that place between wakefulness and sleep than there is in true sleep. The mind walks in the...

Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change is what makes life interesting.

Perhaps once one realised how deeply one could bond with a creature as foreign as a dragon, all forms of human love seemed more acceptable.

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.

I believe in you. You are my new beginning.

I think that old magic draws much of its strength from that acknowledgment: that we are a part of that world.

It is like being two foreigners, trapped in a land we have come to, unable to return to our own, and having only each other to confirm the reality of the place we once lived.

For the weakest has but to try his strength to find it, and then he shall be strong.

That no man can truly imagine being happy and that’s why happiness isn’t for sale here.

There are few things so tender as a man’s dignity.

I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.

I should live each day as if it were significant, as if everyday the fate of the world depended on my action.

The past is no further away than the last breath you took.

As I apologized to her a flicker of panic raced through me and then faded away. There wasn’t enough life left in me to panic. I’d made a mistake and I was dying. Apparently not...

One does not have to be Witted to know the companionship of a beast, and to know that the friendship of an animal is every bit as rich and complicated as that of a man...

Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?

I was lonely, and a lonely heart has hungers that can overpower both common sense and dignity.

But if she is alone now, it is because she chose to be alone, not someone decree if for her. Her life is hers to live, not yours to repair.

I loved that man as I have loved no one else. I do not say I loved him more than I love your mother. But that the way I loved him was different. But if...

There is a dead spot in the night, that coldest, blackest time when the world has forgotten evening and dawn is not yet a promise. A time when it is far too early to arise,...

Despite my pain, I felt not the regret of an ending, but the foreboding of a beginning.

His absence seemed a solid thing, a burden I must carry in addition to my grief… Yet I knew I would continue to live. Sometimes that knowledge seemed the worst part of my loss.

Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.

Undeserved forgiveness. Friendship defined.

Not all men are destined for greatness,” I reminded him. “Are you sure, Fitz? Are you sure? What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life...

Men of passion and vision are often seen as mad.

Had they been dogs they would have sniffed me over and then drawn back. But humans have no such inbred courtesies.

Every small, unselfish action nudges the world into a better path. An accumulation of small acts can change the world.

To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibility, to be bound by the rules of that group.

I think I made a better boy than I do a man, I admitted ruefully to the wolf. Why not wait until you’ve been at it a bit longer and then decide? he suggested.

Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?

A terrible premonition washed over me. This was how the whole world would end…. They would devour the forest and excrete piles of buildings made of stone wrenched from the earth or from dead trees....

Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are simple and always your own.Wolves have no kings

When you want a thing so badly for so long, and then it comes time to face that you cannot have it, sometimes—’‘Sometimes you can’t believe it when it comes to you. Sometimes you’re afraid...

Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.

Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.

my king,” I meant Verity.

Somehow,” she said coldly, “you have confused profitable and not profitable for right and wrong. I, however, have not.

I truly wanted to live a life in which I could make my own choices, independent of the ‘duties’ of my birth and position. It was only when fate granted that to me that I...

The fight isn’t over until you win.

I will always take your part, Bee. Right or wrong. That is why you must always take care to be right, lest you make your father a fool.

Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings?

How often does a man know, without question, that he has done well? I do not think it happens often in anyone’s life, and it becomes even rarer once one has a child.

History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.

That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot...

One must plan for the future and anticipate the future without fearing the future.