123 quotes found
Fantasy writer · American · 1948–2007
American fantasy writer (1948–2007)
“Time to toss the dice”
“A secret spoken finds wings.”
“Small hopes can grow surprising fruit.”
“A woman's eyes cut deeper than a knife.”
“To believe a thing is not to make it true.”
“You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on ma...”
“Often you don't know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three.”
“Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again.”
“Til shade is gone, til water is goneInto the shadow with teeth baredScreaming defiance with the last breathTo spit in Sightblinders eye on the Last Day.”
“One more dance along the razor's edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today.”
“Sometimes, pain is all that lets you know you're alive.”
“Defying the Dark One no matter the length of his shadow. We will live, that defiance said. We will love and we will hope.”
“What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.”
“You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on making. If you die, I will not survive you long.”
“There is some delight in ale and wineAnd some in girls with ankles fineBut my delight, yes always mineIs to dance with Jak O the ShadowsWe will toss the dice however they fallAnd snuggle the girls ...”
“Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bear's mouth? Would you do it again just because you didn't die?”
“In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes”
“If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third.”
“A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy.”
“I always say, if you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.”
“Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won.”
“We rode on the winds of the rising storm,We ran to the sounds of the thunder.We danced among the lightning bolts,and tore the world asunder.”
“The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.”